Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-06-07
rsinor State News.


TIE New Richmond bank has decided
to discontinue Its deposit department ami
has paid lis GepCSitOrS.
WATcHMAN DUN of the Lake Erie road,
at Frankfort. at the risk of his own life,
saved little Cecil Jones from being crushed
by an engine.
YoUNG men of COwan. near Muncie.
have threatened to tar and feather Dep
uty-prOsecutor kiger unless he ceases
prosecuting them.
ANDERSON has a policeman who is so
conscientious that he will not attend the
bail games for fear that he will become in
fatuated with the sport and neglect his
duty.
MRs. ISAAC HUNS, ingalls,, confessed
that she had cut her own throat and then
given out the report that she was assaulted
A suspected tramp VAS nearly lynched for
the supposed crime.
Mrs. GEORGE FEEsHOUR. of Marion,
died in great agony at the home OF her
mother in Goshen, as a direct result of
large dose Of patent headache cure bought
in Marion week ago.
THERE was q desperate running battle
between officers and burglars. at the Pitts
burg yards, in the eastern portion of Fort
Wayne. One tramp and Deputy Sheriff
are probably fatally wounded.
X-REPREsENrATIvE DIR. l.. :. null.
and James Bilderback was thrown from
buggy at New Haven, Allen county.
DR.. Null was injured internally, and il is
feared his injuries will prove fatal.
Bilderback's skull is fractured and face
badly laceratcd.
WHILE digging a well on the place of
ID. IL. Remly. in Montgomery county. the
diggers found block of wood. weighing
several pounds. at the depth OF siXty-fiye
feet. The wood resembles walnut, but it
is not. and no person has been found TO
tell what kind ii is.
Mrs. JAMES STRANGHN and daughter.
Cora. of Alto. were fatally hurt in a run
away at KokomO. They were going into
town when an advertising man tried 10
throw a circus poster into the buggy. The
payer fell under the horses feet, causing
the runaway. Both will die.
FARMERS from various portions of
Clinton county report that there is alb
solutely little left OF the wheat crop and
many of them viii pl0w II mp and put the
ground in corn In addition 10 the llessian
fly they claim that there is new pest in
the form of a peculiar looking white worm
embedded in the roots and working
disastrous results.
4 NUMBER OF farmers who are cOnsid-
cred good authority on the fruit subject
were discussing the fruit problem at IIa-
geTstOwn. and were unanimous in the con-
cluSiOn that though there has been the
most unfavorabie fruit weather this spring,
and especially in Nay, that they have ever
experienced, apples promise the largest
yield in many years. The trees are loaded
FRAUD orders have been issued against
the following persons and corporations i'm
Indiana debarring them from the use of
the mails: Charles Adams and Ella Moore.
OF MiShawaka. Ind. for alleged fraudulent
patent medicine circulars; the Central
American Fur and Wool Company,
Benia Bernard. manager. Indianapolis,
for obtaining money under false pre.enses.
The firm advertises for hides, skins, &c,
and then, it is alleged, does not pay for
them.
GRANVILLE CowING OF Muncie, who is
n recognized authority. says: There will
De no raspberries or blackbeTries. and the
crop of Strawberries viii not he TO per
cent. Apples AMI pears are badly injured,
but not as many killed as some people be-
lieye. There viii be some late cherries.
but very few grapes. The drought is kill
ing the meadows, and some wheat is being
plowed up, while much corn is being re-
planted. Rye was badly injured during
the late cold snap"
TIE Grand Lodge OF Masons of Indiana
Indl1nannliS N
with about five hundred delegates in at
tendance. The annual report of Grand
Secretary Smythe shows the order to be in a
prosperous and growing condition. The
following officers were elected: Grand
Master, Edward O'Rourke, OF Fort Wayne;
Deputy Grand Master. Simeon Il. Gillette.
of Evansville; Senior Grand Warden. Ma
son j. Niblack. of Nincennes: Junior
GrandIW arden. George A. Macomber. Of
South Bend; Grand Treasurer, Martin ii.
Rice, of indianapolis; Grand Secretary,
William III. Smythe, of indianapolis.
ONE week ago the house of Mrs. Hewitt
at Parker City was blown TO pieces with
dynamite. Since then, il is claimed, that
1l.029 people have visited the scene. The
in iurcd women will recover.
Gov. MATTHEW has pardoned Harry
NJ. Hodson of Evansville. who shot and
killed his father, William T. Hodson. in
August, 1892. The pardon was asked by
the Judge that tried the case. the twelve
jurors who returned the verdict, and nu-
merous citizens of Evansville The show
ing was made that the father had assaulted
the boy first with steel rod and then with
pitcher, and that the latter had shot in
self-defense.