Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-04-12
IN GENERAL

Mr.. Nanderpere has been appointed Off
cal representative for the Atlanta Cotton
States Exposition in Belgium and fine
exhibit will be secured from that country.
Alfred Noble, of Chicago, has been APP
pointed to investigate the Nicaragua
Canal The other members of the board
are: Major William Ludlow. L. S. A., and
Commander L. T. Endicott. L. S. n.
The Indian murderer of Government
Officer Skyner of the Blackfoot reserva-
ton, Manitoba, was captured and shot
dead by Il posse of police Friday night
The murderer made determined fight 10
the last.
b. J. Mcclure. formerly fireman en-
ployed by the Union Pacific Railroad, has
sued the receivers for 100000 damages
for injuries which crippled him for life
He charges gross carelessness in allowing
a defective locomotive to be used
After sixteen years wandering through
the West in search of fortune, Richard
Mackey has found his wife, whom he
married in Alabama, residing at LeXing-
ton. Ky. She has married twice since.
and has been suppOsing herself O widow
for the third time. Mackey is wealthy.
IL. Y -
Trade says: Returns showing the condi-
ton of retail trade in March throughout
the country and the distribution OF goods
of final comparison with the same month
in 1894 and 1898 give gratifying evidence
that in most trades and districts marked
Improvement over 1894 is realized, though
on the whole trade is smaller than in 1893.
What the Bell Telephone Company has
been fearing since its patents expired has
HOW assumed definite shape, according to
reports that bear the stamp of accuracy.
This is nothing more or less than that
competing concern has been launched, or
is in process of construction, the mission
of which will be to fight the Bell people
out of the field not in patches. here and
there, but in the entire territory where
they operate. According to the reports
q telephone company has been formed in
New York with Il war chest of tremend-
Gus extent and backed by men at the
mention of whose names visions of vast
wealth arise. The capital stock of the
company is given as $1G0,0O0,0OO The
hackers big enough in the financial world
to have their names associated with so
many figures are: The PARROT Company
of New York, the Standard Oil Company
Searlcs. of the sugar trust: George Crock
or. the San Francisco millionaire: Pills
bury the Minnesota flour man, and J. s.
Clarkson.
Governor John =. Altgeld has paid his
respects to Chauncey VI. Depew. The
occasion for the bitter criticism was the
speech recently delivered by Mr. Depew
ut the Auditorium in Chicago. when he
took occasion to find fault not only with
the Mayor of Chicago. but with Governor
Altgeld as well. The Governor was ask
ed if he had read the speech. NO. |
have not" he replied. ''Some years ago
l listened to Mr. Depew for two hours.
SO long as the Lord insisted on limiting
human life to about three score and ten
years. two hours is all the time that the
average man can afford to spend on De
pew. He is the most conspicuous product
of The doctrine do evil that good may
come of it that this country has ever
seen. He first attracted attention many
years ago as n lobbyist at Albany, where
he for long time was engaged in the
highly honorable business of putting met
aphorical collars on the New York legis-
lators. So that TO the public they appeared
10 belong to the Nanderblts and the New
York Central Railroad. \ train of slime
and corruption was stretched across the
State from New York city by way of Al
tany to Buffalo. and from there it spread
over the whole country, corrupting public
officers. polluting legislative halls and
even filling courts Of justice with its odor.
This was the beginning OF that flood of
corruption which is to-day washing the
foundations from under our whole gov
ernmpntal fabric"