Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-21
WESTERN.

The Illinois Legislature has referred to
the Court of Claims the bill approprat ing
$4,000 to Mrs. John A. Logan, w. w.
Wiltshire and Isaac X. Hit Tor services
in getting refunding of the direct tax
to the State of Illinois.
Captain f. s. Ingalls,. United States
deputy surveyor at Yuma. a. f., receiv-
ed instructions To resurvey the Yuma
Indian reservation for the purpose of
opening it to settlement. The Colorado
River Irrigation Company's great canal
passes through this property.
w. III. Huff recently removed from the
office OF secretary and treasurer Of the
Florence. Colo, Oil Company, has been
held in $1,000 bonds for trial on the charge
of secreting valuable papers. mortgages,
bonds, money. etc, belonging to the com
Spany. Huff claims that he was not le-
gally removed from Office.
The Ohio Prohibitionists have nominal
ed the following State ticket: United
States Senator, Il. :. Thompson Spring
field Governor, Seth III. Ellis. Spring
bOro; Lieutenant Governor, J. w. Sharp.
Mansfield; Attorney General, w. c.
Bates, Columbus; Auditor, a. $. Cation.
CoshocktOn County; treasurer, j. w.
Hawkins. jefferson County; supreme
court judge, John T. Moore. Jackson
County: supreme court clerk. David Spey-
er, fleetwood: board of public works,
James Benjamin, GAINESVILLE
The jury in the Scott case is being i'm
paneled at Butte Neb. A committee of
citizens waited upon the Attorney Gen
sral and urged him to dismiss the case on
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heavy burden of expense upon the tax
payers of Boyd County. Gen. Churchill
Informed the committee that he was act
ng under the instructions of the Gov
srnor and both branches of the Legisla-
ture. and had no choice but TO go ahead
with the case. 1t is thought that the
work of securing n jury will consume sew
eral weeks.
An alarming state of affairs exists in
the Occur d Alenes, in North Idaho, owing
to trouble between the miners union and
the law and order men, who have organ
lied to protect lab0rers in their rights to
work if they can get employment. A man
who incurred the enmity of the miners
union was killed there recently. and the
coroner's jury returned verdict of sui
eide. Gov. Mcconnell has secured several
hundred stands of arms. and over 200
volunteers are drilling at Boise, to pre-
pare for coming conflict, which seems
imminent. Idaho has no State militia.
The excitement over the gold find in
'G' and Washita Counties. Ok, increases
daily, and over 5000 people are now dig
ging in the new fields. An assay shows
that the gold will run SOS TO the ton All
the ore found SO far has come from the
surface gulches. but three mining COM
1anles have already been organized To pat
in plants and mine for the yellow metal
The appearance of the mining camps re-
sembles scenes in the Colorado mineral
regions early California days The
towns of Arapahoe and Cloud Chief are
absolutely depopulated, and everybody
has Joined the rush.
Two hundred pupils of the East Side
school, at Main street and Forest avenue,
Evanston, ILL.,, were driven into panic
Wednesday afternoon by the fall of Il
section of ceiling plaster I'm one of the
rooms. Several children barely escaped
instant death beneath an avalanche of
mortar and old lath three were badly
bruised and cut, scores were partially
blinded and choked by tho great clouds
of lime and dust that filled the rooms
and corridors after the crash, and many
of the bewldered pupils. stampeded by
the foolish cry of fire, would have been
trampled to death by their more power
full companions but for the heroic efforts
of the teachers to restore order.
1t now seems probable that there will be
war TO the knife in the coke regions. w.
J. Rainey, of Cleveland, the largest coke
operator in the country, has defeated the