Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-12
WESTERN.

sas is in session 1T Topeka, GOO delegates
being in attendance.
James II. Garfield, of Mentor, Ohio. son
of the late President, is Republican
candidate for State Senator.
A consignment of 1000 tons of steel
billets has been shipped from Youngs-
town, Ohio, on an order from England.
The Santa Rita copper and iron mill az
Santa Rita, y. NJ. burned at midnight.
Loss, 100000. Believed to be unin-
sured.
Jenkins Stewart, aged years, son of
the United States Judge in the Indian
Territory, was struck by baseball and
instantly killed.
James Reynolds, druggist of Parsons,
Kan, pleaded guilty to selling liquor in
violation of the law and was fined $500.
More arrests will follow.
Folts Brothers. dry goods merchants
at Sioux Falls, 5. D., assigned for the
benefit of all creditors. Liabilities, $12,-
600; assets somewhat less.
David Lesser Leisinski, who had
achieved local reputation at San Fran.
cisco as a writer and poet, committed
suicide. Dependency was the cause.
Winona, No., was wiped out of exist
ence by a cloudDurst, or Il tornado SIM
liar in destructive power, between a. m.
and 1 p. m. Saturday. Eleven people
were drowned.
A violent and long-continued downpour
of rain, amounting to cloudburst, precip-
itated over southeastern Kansas the worst
food in fifteen years. Reports already in
ind 70 Eot five. hi
drowned.
AS result of a riot 1t q picnic at 81
IBERIA, Perry County, Ind, three persons
are dead, five fatally wounded and fifty
seriously hurt. The desperate fight, which
lasted for an hour, was precipitated by
gang of roughs.
Six persons were drowned in Lake
Geneva, Wis, at O'Clock Sunday after
noon when the steam launch Dispatch
was turned over by the tornado that
passed over that section. The boat went
to the bottom like shot.
John Cunningham, an aeronaut, was
instantly killed at Winigan, Mo. He had
made three successful ascensions during
the day, but the fourth time, when about
1900 feet high. the parachute failed to
open and he fell to the ground. His body
was mashed to pulp.
Congressman Joy, of Missouri, and his
bride had narrow escape from death
near Casadro, Col. While driving with a
coaching party of twelve on steep noun
tain road with precipice on one side the
coach overturned. Fortunately it fell
toward the mountain instead of over the
edge of the road.
North Dakota farmers are unanimous
in the statement that the State will this
year harvest the largest crop of wheat
for many years. The quantity was vari-
ously estimated at from 40, 600, 600 to co.
100000 bushels. Not few venture the
statement that the average yield would
be from sixteen TO thirty bushels to the
acre.
John Meyer, Speaker of the Illinois
House of Representatives, prominent Re
publican politician and well-known law
yer of Chicago, died Wednesday at Free
port. For some time the Speaker had
been in poor health. but it was not known
that the end was near. Death came sud-
denly while the patient was seeking rest
and proved n great shock to his political
colleagues and associates at the bar.
The eleventh census is practically COM
pleted. Superintendent White said that
only one table and the deductions there
from remain uncOmpeted. The printing
is we'll under way and will be completed
by the close of the present year. If this
promise is made good the eleventh census
will beat the record of It's predecessor by
two and n half years. The table yet to be
prepared relates to occupations, and it
has been necessary to delay ii until the
present time. The report will contain
twenty-five volumes, and Mr.. Wright ex-
presses the opinion that it will be the
most complete of it's kind ever published
by the Government. The total cost will
be about 81 500, 0O0 or about double the
cost of the census of 1850.
A family of six persons, consisting of
Frederick Hellman, his wife and four
children, were asphyxiated by gas In
their home at Col Cornelia street, Chicago,
Thursday night. The gas which brought
death to the family escaped from n jet
near the head of the bed occupied by He'll
man and three of the children. This was
found partly open when the neighbors
crowded into the little sleeping apart
ment The whole family slept in one
small room only by s feet in dimensions
The window was closed and the gas soon
filed the lungs of the sleeping family and
ended their lives. The discovery of the
tragedy was not made till rather late
Friday morning. About $50 o'clock Mrs.
Hellman, mother OF. Frederick, called at
her sons house, but to her great surprise
found the doors closed and the window
shades still drawn. She went to the
rear of the house and the kitchen door
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house, met a strong odor of gas and
suspected at once that something was