Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-01-18

Henry We'll and Charles Newman. and
charges of conspiracy and bribery are
lodged against them through their efforts
TO get money from William II. Durant
under promises of having his tax levy
reduced. Detectives of the Mooney *
Boland agency. who made the arrests
are after a fourth member of the gang.
David Trout, who is said to he one of
the conspirators. The Civic Federation
is behind the detectives and promises
further developments in the collection
of taxes in other divisions of the city.
Over 10000 people in Ohio are on the
verge of starvation and there is impera-
tive need for immediate relief The in
vestigation of their condition. commenced
at the instance of Gov. Mckinley, prom
ises to reveal narrowing state of af-
fairs. One case has already been re-
ported which shows the deplorable condi-
ton of these unfortunate people. a
miner who had worked but five days in
three months went to the grocery where
he had always traded and asked for
sack of -four on credit. The grocer, hav-
ing carried the unemployed to such an
extent that he was nearly bankrupt, re-
frenzied with the refusal, seized the sack
and ran home with it, and when an Of
fcer went to the house to arrest him he
found the wife and children eating the
raw -four, not having tasted bread for
two days. He turned away and did not
make the arrest. This is only one of TO-
600 cases where people are actually starv-
ing in Athens. Perry and Hooking Coun-
los Nxh hot
in desperate straits.
The frozen. lifeless body of Mrs. Anne
Berchckovfske, aged 60 years. of No. 3D.
Belmont avenue, Chicago, was found on
Sunday ut ) p. IN. lying at the foot of
Anna street 1t had lain there all day
and probably all of Saturday night, for
when il was discovered it was covered
with several inches of snow. The body
was taken home by the police to sur
roundings even more cheerless than those
OF the night before. which furnished at
least shroud-pure white snow. A de-
creplt old man who can speak no language
but Polish. her husband Michael Berche
kofske. sat in the fireless. cheerless house
awaiting her return. There was only the
poorest attempt ut heating the room.
There was a little fire in the cold room
and no more fuel to replenish it; no food
in the house and no means to procure the
necessaries TO funeral according to any
of the customs of civilized people Not
even the means to dress the body in Il
cleanly garb or in anything else than
the soiled and tattered gown in which the
body lay.
A circle of Chicago detectives surround
ed Detectives O'Donnell and Allmindin-
ger at the City Hall while the latter open
cd envelopes bearing New York post
marks. Each envelope contained a check
for 81 ,G66, share of the reward offered
by the Shoe and Leather Bank of New
York for the arrest of Seeley, its abscond-
ing hookkeeper, who has been sentenced
IL Imprisonment. Mcfarland, who in
form,t the officers of the identity of
Seeley, received check for like amount
When Mcfarland appeared at detective
headqUarter late one night and said he
could solve big mystery his breath was
tainted with the fumes of liquor, and the
willy "hy cops" winked ut each other and
said. This is pipe-dream; ii is a good
thing push it along" SO Mcfarland was
passed along the line from one sage de-
tective to another, until there was no.
body left but O'Donncll and Allmindin-
ger. They couldn't saw him off ON any
body else, and unwillngly they i'rudgdd
over TO the North Side-and Seeley was
caught.
Probably the most startling failure
that has ever occurred in South Dakota
or the Northwest was revealed WedneS-
day morning when William Walter Tay-
lor, the outgoing State Treasurer and
President of the First National Bank and
Northwestern Mortgage Trust Company,
of Redield failed to appear to make his
settlement at Pierre with his successor
Treasurer-elect Phillips, of Deadwood
The news and the closing of his Redfield
bank came like a thunder-clap from u
clear sky, because both Taylor and the
financial institutions with which he was
connected were regarded as firm and re-
liable beyond question. The news from
Pierre demonstrates that no money is
held there to the credit of the State
Treasurer, and none is held in the Red
field bank. 1t is estimated that about
$3.50, 600 is missing with Taylor. Aside
from financial loss the action of Taylor
is felt terribly by all who have known and
done business with him and the financial
enterprises with which he has been con-
rected in years past. He and his enter
prises have handled many thousands Of
Eastern capital. and his bank has al
ways been regarded as one of the firm
safe institutions i'm the State