Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-01-11
Minor Sta:e Items.

TIProN viii have a telephone exchange.
Fees are unusually scarce in the Sey-
nCur market.
SHELBrvITLE is TO have new 81, 900
Christian Church.
MANY fish are being dynamited in
streams near Goshen.
JESSE +. COLLINS farm residence near
Wilkinson is in ashes.
CAKTowN. Knox County, citizens want
the town Incorporated.
LITCHFIELD Bros veneer works. North
Vernon, burned. Loss, $500
GAS companies at Farmland have formed
a combine and Will raise rates.
\ BIG rabbit hunt occurred near Craw-
louisville, recently. and $40 were caught.
THE Petersburg Fair grounds are ad-
vertiSed at sherifs sale TO satisfy mort
gage.
AS HINsHAw's wagon and carriage
shops at Westheld are in ashes. Loss,
$500.
CH1cKES thieves have stripped all the
coOps in the vicinity OF Eastwood, near
Nincennes.
LEA SAUNDERS clothes caught fire
from cook stove in Brazil, and she was
fatally burned.
SHELBYvrLLE odd Fellows have sold
their three story brick building for $4,000.
VIII erect a larger one.
MANY accidents are caused in Washing
ton by people carelessly throwing banana
peelings on the sidewalk.
RICHMOND people are saying many bad
things against the gas companies for not
giving them better pressure
e. ILL.
at Marion, Shelby County, by the explosion
OF lamp al ''watch" party.
ANDERSON parties are leasing land at
Fortyille and will penetrate the earth in
hopes of developing an oil field.
ELIZA ToDERA. young farmer. residing
rear Ozalia, accidentally cut of his left
loot with an AK, ami came near bleeding TO
death.
\ MIDDLE-AGED man claiming To be an
actor attempted suicide at Anderson. by
jumping in front OF a passenger train. Was
saved.
MICHAEL 4. SULLIVAN caught his foot
in a railroad frog at the Lafayette depot,
just as a passenger train was approaching.
His foot was crushed.
BURGLARS are 50 common at Shclbyyillc
that it has become common Salu;atiOn
between citizens: Good morning were
you robbed last night?"
IL the damage sGit of Mrs. AIDA Eeal
against the q ~ of Bedford for injuries
sustained 10y falling on a defective side
walk. Bloomington jury, awarded her
$1,000
CHARLES ULSlIAFEB was arrested at
Wabash. charged with passing forged
C ccss He confessed ana said that the
desire To steal and forge other peoples
names was inherited.
TIE report of tie Michigan City Prison
Directors shows that $50 eonyicts have been
employed to work in tie Allen bicycle
factory al - cents. and that the contract
does not expire until 1871.
IT took 900 pounds of fresh boiled ham,
- bushels Of potatoes. SEQ pounds OF wheat
bread. 400 sweet cakes, 800 pies,
bushels of onions. 60 pounds of butter and
10 gallons of coffee to feed The prisoners at
Prison North On Christmas.
TIE night Waterman of the Spencer
bank was showing crowd of friends. the
other evening. how he would perform
should robbcr try to Get in. His revolver
accidentally went off and the bullet passed
through one of the spectators coats.
EDWIN VI SIN. etNir~
farmer. was killed in 4 gravel pit. mile
southwest of Middlet0wn. With number
of other men he was working the pit, when
an ovcrhangiug ledge of frozen earth gave
way and fell on Mr.. Gustin. crushing and
killing him instantly. He was a land owner
in Madison County, and was prominent in
farmers institute work. He leaves a wife.
DIR. METCALF, Secretary of the State
Board OF Health, has completed table
showing the range OF smallpox during the
year ending Oct. 81, 1894. Ii is as follows,
excluding the Muncie eases which occurred
at that date: Lake, number OF cases, q,
deaths, none; st. Joseph County, 25 cases,
deaths: Fulton, q eases, deaths: Ma
rion, 4 eases, death; Marshall, s cases, 2
deaths; Wayne, q eases, death: Biackford,
case; johnson. l case; Pulaski, cases;
Dekalb, case: Steuben. 2 eases, l death;
Starke, 1 case. death; Kosciusko, cases.
death: Whitney, case; Grant, l case, l
death; Delaware, case. The per cent. of
deaths to eases was about p.
THERE are only three counties in the
State, Crawford. Orange, and Nermilli<n,
without any representatives in the School
for Feeble Minded Youths at Fort Wayne.
TIE canyassing of the vote on gravel
roads in Sullivan County, showed that
Washington Township gave ITO in favor of
the Salem and Millport road, and Monroe
Township 60 against leaving majority on
joint ballot of 90. The Salem and Sparks
Ferry road gains by majority of % in
jefferson Township and As i'm Washington
Township, making joint majority OF "a in
favor of the tax. The roads will be built,
and this is just a starter for system Of free