Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-26
BREVITIES.

Won Kee. Il Chinaman. was mysterious
ly murdered in Montreal, Que.
The sloop Restless of Santa Barbara is
reported lost off Santa Cruz Island with
sixteen persons on board.
At Bruex, Bohemia a remarkable sink
ing of the earth caused the collapse of
eighteen houses and has done damage TO
the amount of q million and half crowns.
At Cleveland 400 men employed at the
Lake Shore foundry went on strike Mon
day. They demand q restoration of the
wages paid previous to reduction, which
took place about two years ago. Two
hundred and fifty of the men are laborers,
while the remaining $50 are cupola men.
A treaty has been concluded between
Greece and Russia by which n fixed i'm
port duty has been determined upon for
Russian cereals. and by which Russia is
given the monopoly of the kerosene trade
in Greece 1t is expected that this will
have the effect of driving American petro-
leum from the Greek market.
1t has been learned hat Frank l.. Hart.
q notorious bunko-steerer. who broke Jail
at Seattle. Wash. last March with the
desperate Tom Blanck. made his escape
by being sent in a box to PascO. on the
Northern Pacific When the box was de-
livered the hour was midnight and escape
from the lonely freight house was easy.
Nine skeletons have been found in one
of the prehistoric mounds near Frankfort,
Ohio. The bones were those of short.
heavy, muscular men. The skulls are
thick and rather round and the facial
angle is low Several skulls give evidence
of artificial fiattening of the base during
infancy No skeletons found in Ohio pre-
sent a more inferior tribe physically.
At Los Angeles. Cal. John G.. Luck
entered his wife's room at the Westmin-
ster Hotel and finding her in bed cut her
throat. Her screams aroused other
boarders and Luck jumped TO the ground
from a window in the second story. sever
ing his own wind pipe before he leaped.
Both are still alive. Luck is said to be
the son of wealthy family in Nashville,
Tenn.
Peter Beleque, an old fisherman lily
Ing at Woods, Ore, on the Neucesta
River. has received notice that he has
fallen heir, with three other relatives, to
the snug sum of 100000 in Canada.
DtIltluc IL tDout W. ststiS Oiu, anu ioi
years has lived alone in the mountains
He lost track of all his relatives and
never communicated with any of thens
Since the news of his good luck has been
actually confirmed he has had numerous
offers of marriage.
DR.. l.. J. Gibbons of Rochester, y. Y.
who was present at the electrocution of
the negro, Johnson, at Auburn, declares
that the condemned man was partly re-
suscitated after being taken from the
chair, when the warden prevented fur
Their attempts to restore consciousness.
Shortly after an autopsy was performed
Oh the body.
The new addition of the American tin
plate factory at Elwood Ind, was opened,
go men being employed.
All labor and Industrial organizations
of Texas have been invited to meet in
Joint session at I.amDasas Aug. 20.
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Southern coal producers are organizing
big combine TO control prices. The cap
ital stock will be $40, Goo 900.
A lone highwayman held up Wichita
Kan.) electric street car in the sight of
fifty persons, and after robbng the only
passenger and the conductor, made his
escape.