Marshall County independent., 1895-07-05
cerninr information that has come to them

formation says that Fraker is under sur
veillance and will be delivered up on as
surance that the $4,000 reward which
has been offered will be forthcoming. Mr..
Moon declines to say where Fraker is
supposed to be.
William Murray, who has a mine at the
junction of Kosh creek and Pitt river.
about sixty miles northeast of Reddng,
Cal, brings news of having discovered
the richest mine in the country, and says
it is the original Lost Cabin" mine,
which has been searched for during the
last thirty years. He has discovered
lode 500 feet wide and 400 feet high, i'm
pregnated with iron ore, which bears gold
and silver to the value of from SO to
$50 per ton. The range where this mine
was discovered is continuation of that
upon which is the great Lost Confidence
mine, or what is generally known as the
Iron Mountain. 1t was recently sold to
an English syndicate for 100000.
a big fire at San Francisco, Cal, was
got under control at 9:45 o'clock Thursday
night, after consuming $1,000, 600 worth
of property, including many large manu-
featuring plants and the little homes of
scores of families. The fire threatened the
entire city and was replete with sensa-
tional and exciting episodes, including
powder explosion which scattered embers
far and wide Mrs. Gilroy was killed by
the explosion of lamp in her house while
she was trying to save her household goods
from destruction. Help from neighbOring
cities assisted in subdung the flames. The
fire ate its way to the high brick wall of
the deserted Southern Pacific Offices
which acted as a barrier over which the
flames could not work.
Under the head of revenue legislation n
bill will be introduced in the Illinois
Senate within few days, which will cost
the business men of Chicago who occupy
the docks, wharves and slips along the
lake shore between $5,OO0,G00 and &c.
100000 annually. This aims to transfer
the management and control of all sub
merged lands between the Indiana and
Wisconsin State lines to Il board of COM
missioners provided for in the act, who
shall lease such property on behalf of the
State. The plan revolutionizes the meth
cd of holding such lands which has been
followed in Chicago ever since the incor-
poration of the city, and will no doubt
raise mighty roar of protest from the
interests affected.
Almost the entire police force of Denver
was employed Thursday night in guard
ing the houses of eight aldermen who fear
ed violence from their constituents. A
bill for an ordinance granting reduction
of only 10 per cent on the schedule OF
water rates now in force passed the Coun-
Gil by 4 vote of S to 6, and this aroused the
anger of the people, who attended the
Council meeting in force. The measure
which caused 50 much indignation has
clause which makes the rates thus fixed
burden on the people for fifteen years.
Besides, it is claimed that the reduction
of - per cent is not one-half what the
public is entitled TO under the company's
contract, which calls for reduction this
year to the average rates charged IL Chl-
cago. st. Louis and Cincinnati.
Discouraged by her failure to pass the
examination given her class, heart-broken
because her fathers mild chidings and
unable to dispel the intense belief that the
teachers of her school were conspiring to
defeat her plans for a high scholarship,
19-year-old Minnie Lynch, of Chicago,
drank carbolic acid Friday morning and
ended her life. She had spent the night
in tears. sobbing her keenly felt misery
and moaning over her fathers lnsinua-
tons that perhaps her failure TO pass the
final examination was due TO her lack OF
diligence and perseverance. The thought
that she had combated against conspira-
cy to defraud her of her examination
mark preyed heavily upon the young girl,
but she appears 10 have grieyed over the
parental reproof until her sorrow grew
into a suicidal melancholia.
II. C. Taudy, occupant of the Bellefon-
taine farm, on the site of old Fort Belle
fontaine, six miles from the mouth of the
Missouri river, has found beer bottle
containing Il rather sensational note writ
ten in lead pencil In n good hand. The
bottle was picked up on the river bank by
his son. IAle note, which was turned over
TO Chief Harrigan of ST. Louis, is as fol-
lows: "6-12, $50 whoever finds this
bottle: We have been kidnapped by 4 gang
of cut-throats and thieves and are held
on an island in the Platte river, near
Omaha, Neb. They are not only thieves,
but counterfeiters, and have their head
quarters i'll Omaha, near the Douglas
street bridge. Come 10 our rescue and
you will be literally rewarded. Go to the
mouth of the Ellihorn river and stop at
the third island down stream. For Gods
sake. come quick" The note is signed
~ L. Pilford and John Buckmaster. The
Omaha authorities will be notified to in
vestigate.
The authorities at Spokane have arrest
ed two of the most daring car thieves Op-
Grating in the West. Their plan was to
spot freight car they desired to pillage
spring the door at station and board the
train, and when it was in motion throw
off what they wanted. When the train
slowed up they would drop off and go
back and pick up their plunder. A short
time ago two men went into secondhand
store and offered to dispose of a lot of
goods they had concealed n few miles east
of Spokane. The secondhand dealer COM
municated with Chief of Police Mertz
and was directed to so ahead and buy the
goods. The thieves went to the place
with wagon and secured $500 worth of
dry goods, boots and shoes and started
back to town. Officers were stationed on
the road and placed them under arrest.
The thieves have also been operating on
the Great Northern. 1t is thought they
are a part of an organized band, as tele-
oman, foupI ON chan, hora tho in fo r,,o no N