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

urer Grayson expects to begin payment
at once There will be about 1850 en-
rolled citizens, and the per capita will be
about S14.
For many months new Chinese arrivals
at Cincinnati have been swindled out of
all their money by their own countrymen.
The scheme of the sharpers is to strike up
an acquaintance with the new arrival and
tell him any kind of story to get his
money. So numerous have been COM
plants at the legation at Washington
that DR.. j. G. Thoms went to make an
investigation. 1t is claimed that as much
as $4,000 has been secured by two or
three Cinnamon of the city from their un.
suspecting countrymen within the last
two years.
At South Bend, Ind, Jonathan Creed.
an old citizen and one of the most promi-
nent attorneys, was shot several times
Friday morning by Daniel l.. Mease, pro-
prietor of cider mill. The wounds are
not believed to be serious. The men had
business relations, and were about to dis
cuss matters, when Mease covered Greed
and began firing from distance of a few
feet. After the revolver was emptied
Greed ran. Mease then picked up bar
of iron and would probably have murder
ed Creed had not the latter been more feet
of foot. Mease will be arrested as soon
as found.
For time Thursday night it looked as
though lynching would be had in St.
Louis. Lynch him.r Brain the vii
lain" String him up to n lamppost."
and other equally threatening shouts arose
from all sides of a crowd gathered around
a Salvation army detachment. An ice
man named Kerns tried to drive his
wagon over the salvationists while they
were on their knees in prayer, and his
conduct was resented by the crowd. Kerns
was arrested. Just before the iceman
hove in sight the steward of the Nicholson
House had ordered the porter to turn the
hose on the men and women and drive
them away.
A smart young man who plays practical
jokes with little regard for the safety of
human life was abroad in the alleys near
the Paris laundry, Chicago, early We'd
nesday morning, and with white mask
over his face, his form enshrOuded in q
white sheet, he assumed n gnost-like walk
and delighted in frightening the young
women employed on the night shift of the
laundry. So realistically supernatural
were his antics that three girls were
thrown into Mysteries and became uncon-
sciOus. Failing like logs on the floor.
the girls first screamed with terror, then
W'ithed in paroXySmS of hysteria, and
finally when exhausted, succumbed to I'M
consciousness. Physicians who were sum-
moned by a policeman who discovered the
serious work of the stalking sheeted youth
worked three hours to restore conscious
ness. 1t was rot until some time after
the frightened girls had been removed to
their homes that they recovered their fac
ulties and nervous equilibrium.
Developments of a most sensational
character in the investigation of the fraud
ulent Chicago payrolls may be expected
within a short time. Former city EN-
ployes are falling over one another in their
eagerness to tell what they know of the
peculiar methods used in manipulating the
payrolls. A. j. Eowalski, ex-superin-
tendent of the water pipe extension bu-
reau, has made statement to Commits
sioner of Public Works Kent and Chief
of Police Badenoch, telling how the pay
rolls were loaded with the names of ward
heelers sent to him by his superior Off
GERS. His testimony, for such in effect
his statement is, indicates that men who
stood very high knew that men who never
did days work for the city were on the
payrols as laborers and drew pay as such,
while their time was taken up in political
work. The fact that Eowalski has told
all he knows is most carefully concealed
by the officials making the investigation,
but it is u fact, nevertheless.