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

ELwOoD has located a blg machine shop
20 employ 100 men.
ALBERT WHETSToN;., a CiaG: weighing
! 4S2 pounds. native Of Atlanta. Hamilton
! County, Is dead.
Miss VIRGINIA LcCKGIDGr. recently
injured in arunaway accident al GreencaS-
/ tie, died of her injuries.
CHARLES Mc!STIEE, aged (. fell from
fence at New Albany. ard died in few
minutes from conclusion Of the brain.
JACOB DAVIS was cutting wheat near
Delphi. when his team ran away. dragging
the binder over him, causing instant death.
FRED snAFER. while riding on an J.. :.
6; NJ. \. freight train. near Elkhart, was
! brutally assaulted and robbed by trampS.
TIE barn Of Curran Bell south of FL
wood. was struck by lightning during
thunderstorm. and burned MP. Loss 81 200.
TIE Union Steel Works. Of Alexan-
dria, employing 1900 men. has increased
the wages of their employees ten per cent.
all around.
THE signing of the new tinplate wage
scale insUres steady employment for the
army of workmen j. the American Tin
plate Works al Elwood.
JOIN SnUERENBEAND, a timer. com
mitted suicide al Boswell, Benton County.
| by hanging himself. lie had Teen in tie
! Insane Asylum several times.
ALREEr BERRY, the H-year-Old son of
Prof. y. Berry, was drowned in Eel river
at LoganSpcrt, while bathing with two
companions. The bcdy was recovered.
EARL LACEY. aged T. was drowned in
pit at .Tcffcrsonyille. The boy was missed
/ I.. tod l.x no
moaning of his biz dog near Tie edge Of the
pit.
LEE KUHNs, who found a valuable bed
OF aragOnitc. or limestone rock, on his farm
near ingalls,. has begun the construction Of
kilns. locking 10 the manufacture of COM
mercial lime.
THE Elwocd oil FRO iucing Company
has drilled in another lG)-hGrrel well on
its land near Geneva. and six more wells
will be pat down Immediately. as the field
! gives exceptional promise OF richness.
AT Cowan in a runaway accident Mrs.
George Keliner. Of Nuncie. was danger
ously injured and her G-year-Old daughter
had an arm broken. 4 Mrs. Vorice. who
was in the carriage. had an arm broken.
New wheat is beginning TO come into,
market at Wabash earlier. by nearly ten
DAYS. than was ever known before. The,
yield runs from seven To fifteen bushels PEI,
acre, and the quality generally is rather
poor.
TIE Marion Circuit Court has decided
that the Adams Express Company can only
be taxed on personal property in this State.
! The State Tax Commissioners had assessed .
the company on a mileage basis. and the /
company prayed for an injunction. The ,
case viii goto the State supreme Court,
and probably TO the United States supreme
Court for final settlement.
HENRY Lucas, a farmer, aged %. was
probably fatally injured al Knightstown
in railroad accident. lie attempted to
cross the track in front of the Pennsylvania I.
limited. when his vehicle was struck and
demolished and the horse instantly
killed Lucas was hurled a distance OF
thirty feet. lie is severely injured and
recovery is doubtful.
AT Mick McCarty's saloon. Muncie
Thomas Rodgers was accidentally shot in
the left groin by William Everett. The
wounded man cannot live. The two men
are flnt-glass blowers and.employed at the
Munce fiint-glaSs works. \ crowd OF
men were in the saloon, and Everett Was
recklessly llouriShing The Self-acting gun.
when if went OFF. Both were the best OF
friends, hut had been drinking.
C'sNCH bugs in large numbers have ap-
peared in the eastern pant of Bartholomew
! County. ANA are doing great damage 10 the
growing corn. In some localities since the
wheat has leem harvested these pests have
become SO numerous that the cCrnstalks
are black with them. VI Bumsbill a quart
of the bugs was gathered and shipped &c
Prof. W. {. Laita. of Purdue University,
TO be in0culateG with chnch bug cholera.
These bugs viii be returned and scattered
among thc living Gncs with hope of thus
DISCRIMINATING them.
WHILE Otto Logan was drawing OF
a barrel Of yarnish in the barn of ". \
Williams, Wabash. the fluid, from Somt
unknown cause. exploded. Young Logan
was burned about the face and hands, buf
hastened to turn in an alarm. The
! department responded quickly. but every
thing was very dry and The barn an,
contents were destroyed. Two valuable
horses were lost. The flames communicate
to W. Il. CollinS'S stable. which was ais.
consumed Total loss, Sl,20); insuranc,
ON Williams's barn, $40.
STATE Gas Inspector !. c. Leach has .
returned from Alexandria. where he la
been trying for d week 10 conquer an
obstreperous gas well owned by the De
PAW Plate-glaSS Company. Three weeks
ago the we'll was anchored. and soon there.
after the confined Gas began blowing Ia,
water ont of all the water and gas wells il
the ncighbOrhOOd. The gas evidently
escaped through b oxen casing and fOunC
its way through the shale and clay 10 tbs
surface of the ground. Residents of tn,
vicinity were alarmed 10 end their houses
cellars. wells and oubuildings filled witt
the fluid, ard only utmost care prevented
many explosions. To prevent accident;
the officers ordered the well opened again
and il has for three weeks been blowing
of 3,5O0,0O0 feet Of gas daily. Three eXper
gas-well men refused 60 undertake th
job of restraining the runaway" Con
tractor Decker was finally induced. ant
he has the machinery on the ground. Mr.
Leach and DePauw people hope TO hav
the well under control soon. The ESCAPING
gas is boiling uo in Pipe creek, half
mile away.
TIE Union City Council has authorizes
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