Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-28
WESTERN.

Harry Hayward, who was to have been
hanged at Minneapolis Friday, has been
granted respite for thirty days pending
argument for new trial.
Mrs. Springer, who, with her second
husband, was accused of numbering her
first husband, III. b. Darling. by slow poi
son, died at a resort in Santa Cruz noun
tains of diabetes.
G. III. Fennimore, of New York, is I'M
der arrest at Detroit, charged with being
one of gang of directory or business
mems guide" swindlers. The chief gang
is said to be in Chicago.
The Missouri river is rising rapidly, the
June rise having commenced in earnest.
The water rose three inches Wednesday.
and one and n half Thursday. The water
has been advancing gradually for some
time.
Ex-Congressman Richard Bland. of
Missouri, has returned to Denver from
his lecturing tour through the State, and
is ill. He is unable to see callers. His
weakened condition is the result Of an at
tack of la grippe.
Ex-Congressman w. A. Harris, of Kan
sas. has been sued by Barney Murray, a
Topeka hotel keeper, for $4,000 damages
for alternating the affections of the lat
ter's wife, who secured divorce and
married the ex-Congressman.
Lieut.. Milton +. Davis, now stationed at
the Preside, mas brought suit to obtain
a divorce from his wife, Blanche Bates,
the actress. The wedding, which took
place year ago, was great event in
San Francisco society, but, after living
with her husband three months, Miss
Bates deserted him to return to the stage
Prosecution of the men suspected Of
completely in the attempt to cheat the
city of Chicago by means of fraudulent
payrolls in the street cleaning and pipe
extension departments was begun by the
arrest of four foremen and two time
keepers on warrants charging them with
conspiracy TO obtain money by false pre-
lenses.
o. Dunbar, editor of the Phoenix, A. T.,
Gazette, has been found guilty of criminal
libel. The plaintiffs were Gov. Hughes,
G.. NJ. Bruce, secretary of Arizona; Fran
els j. Heney, eX-AttOrney General of the
territory, and United States Marshal w.
j. Meade. The suit was based upon an
editorial printed two years ago which Sc
yerely scored the plaintiffs.
Fifty Cincinnati women with brooms
swept Colerain avenue from Virginia ave
nue. to the corporation line Wednesday.
The residents had been complaining about
the neglected condition of the avenue
without any evident result, so the women
took hand themselves. Armed with all
sorts of implements, house brooms pre-
dominating, they went AT the job with a
will. 1t was a long and hard task, but
by shutdown the roadway presented an
unwontedly clean aspect.
Rainy Lake City, Mimi, is intensely
excited over daring and successful rob
berry of the bank late Friday evening by
two masked men, who, after a desperate
struggle with the cashier, in which he was
finally beaten into insensibility, secured
$4,000 and escaped through a crowd of
bewildered citizens who had been ut
tracted to the bank by the struggle and
pistol shots. Several posses have taken
up the search, and there is some hope of
overtaking the desperate robbers.
The Greek Supreme Court has decided
that the recent South McAlester, /. T..
session of the council, being called for the
specific purpose of adjusting the rolls,
had no power to pass an act suspendinS
the chief treasurer and auditor, and that
these officers are still in office. The de-
cision of the Supreme Court being that
payment can be no longer tied up, Treas