Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-05-03
NEWS NUGGETS.

James +. Caldwell. the veteran starter
of race horses, who is known To turfmen
the country over, lost $4,000 in faro
bank at Little Rock. Ark
Judge Golf. of Columbia. s. c.. and the
State authorities are likely 10 lock horns
over the seizure of liquor brought into
the State in violation of the dispensary
law.
The State Hospital for Insane at Wat
kins, y. Y, was partly burned The
loss was $500, and the excitement
among the inmates was intense while the
fire ragged.
The men employed by the New York
and Cleveland Gas Coal Company. near
Pittsburg, repudiated the strike order.
They said in convention they were salts
fled with the 90 cent rate.
William Kirt. of Hamilton. Ont. and
Charles Writer'S, n colored man. were
killed. and Alfred Sells, of New York
City. was seriously injured at Hockport
Ohio, by being struck by a train.
In regard to the reported Indian out
break III North Dakota and the sending
of troops from Fort Totten to the scene
of the trouble, Major General Merritt
said: There is nothing in it at all. Some
man with fertile imagination has started
the scare"
Light is being let in upon the intrigue
behind the British movements in Nicara-
qua, and the revelations are in the high
est degree sensational. They point to
British control of that republic and To
British domination over an ownership of
the canal. British capital will build the
canal and its operation will be under
the protection of British cannon, unless
the plans that are now well along toward
completion miscarry.
The Nebraska State Supreme Court con-
vened in extraordinary session to hear the
case of the State OF Nebraska against ex-
State Treasurer Hill and his bondsmen
TO recover the sum of S236.0 900 which was
lost in the failure of the Capital National
Bank of Lincoln. The case will be tried
by jury, and a special panel has been
drawn for the occasion. This is the first
time in the history of the State that such
course has been resorted to-
A stranger walked into the Iowa Trust
and Savings Bank ut Dubuque and broke
the window behind which lay the funds
for use during the day, with the evident
intention of grabbing the money and cs-
Gaping before the employees had recovered
from their surprise. Teller Maurice
Brown was standing near. and as the
window was broken he took in the situa-
ton and graspcd revolver. shooting the
man. the ball taking effect in the robbers
head, infiicting serious but not danger
Gus wound.
A frame dwelling owned by Henry Sny-
der. in Pittsburg. and occupied 10y Samuel
Weaver and his family, burned the other
night. Weaver was i'll with typhoid fever
and was known to have persisted. In the
morning his remains and those of Fred
erick Snyder, son of the owner of the
building, and William Mitchell, male
nurse who was attending Weaver. were
recovered from the ruins Mrs. Weaver
is in critical condition from burns and
fright. Mrs. Weaver is the mother of
two-day-old baby. and she and her child
were rescued with great difficulty. The
loss was about $4,000
Maxine Gomez. the famous soldier who
took part in The last revolution in Cuba.
on the side of the separatists, has landed
in Cuba.
bed a Southern Pacific train at Wilcox.
A. T., some months ago. finding it inn
possible to escape the officers, shot and
killed himself near Mancos.
James Dupont was arrested near Perry.
O. T., charged with a murder near Lex
ington, Ky, in 1880.
Curryyilc. a small town in Pike Coun-
ty. Mo-. on the Chicago and Alton road.
was almost destroyed by fire.
The American section Of the Theosoph-
zeal Society has voted to sever its con-
nection with the international society.
A cyclone struck the northwestern por-
ton of Omaha. Four houses were de-
molished at the corner of Thirtythird and
Spaulding streets. and a number OF out
buildings and trees were blown down.