Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-02-01
WESTERN.

May wheat got below 30 cents in Chi
cage on Tuesday. the lowest point Oh the
crop and the lowest price for the future
ever reached.
Clarence Schrader and Gus Cash of
| Marshall, Mo. each aged fourteen years,
while attempting 10 cross 1eath's Creek,
were drowned.
The School Board of st. Joseph. Mo-.
has voted unanimously to expel any pupil
using cigarettes, whether Oh OF off the
school grounds.
Mrs Bessie Webb Loughhridgc. wife of
Professor Il. II. Loushbridge, of the Uni
ycrsty OF California, committed suicide
by drinking carbolc acid 1T Berkeley,
! Cal. Ill-health was the cause.
| The national convention of manufacture
| ers at Cincinnati elected these officers:
President. Thomas Dolan, al Philadel-
phia; Secretary. $. III. Wilson, Of Cincin-
natl; Treasurer. Robert Laidlow, of Gin
cinnat. and Vice Presidents from nearly
all the States.
Peter Kuhn. q Defiance OOhiO) lumber
dealer, assigned To Il. +. Enos, turning
over to his creditors ali Of the property he
had been Il lifetime III accommodating,
amounting to more than $1G0,0OO. The
heaviest creditors of Mr.. Kuhn are the
MidGletown Pump Company and the
First National Bank.
The Hazel mine slope, the deepest in
IT, Lehigh region, is on fire. The steam
pipes have been broken off half way down
the mine and the pumps can not be work
eel to fight the flames. The fire has climb
ed to the slope mouth and the tower of
the breaker is burning. The colliery is
the property of the I.chish Valley Coal
Company.
In spite of the fact that Bill Cook and
most of the other bandits of the South
west have been gathered in 10y the au-
thorities, the Pacific and Wells-Fargo
Express Companies have not resumed
the carrying of money packages into the
Indian Territory. They say Cherokee
Bill and Jim French and few other
choice spirits are still at large, and they
can easily get together q sufficient follow
ing to hold up all the trains that will be
run through the Territory for some time.
Chicago enjoyed the distinction Sun
day and Sunday night of being the coolest
Place in the United States. At $50 Il.
M, the mercury recorded nine degrees be-
low zero. At 8 Il. M. it was eight below.
and from then until q i'll the evening it
grew gradually warmer. until only one
degree below was shown. Then the TEN
pcrature began again to fall, and not nm
til Monday morning did it get warmer
than 6 degrees below zero. Monday the
cold was intense, not once mounting
above zero. Reports from all over the
country are that thick covering of snow
protects wheat. So far it is believed fruit
trees are uEhurt.
Wrcckage, identified us belonging to the
missing Graham & Morton propeller Chi
cora was discovered i'm the ice off South
Haven, Mich, Wednesday, proving with
out "a question that the famous passenger
boat, once the pride of Lake Michigan,
has gone to the bottom. This settles the
awful doubt that has been hanging over
the fate of the vessel since she was first
reported lost Monday afternoon. BY the
sinking of the Chicora twcnty-six lives
were undoubtedly lost. 1t would have
been impossible for them to have kept n
small boat ailoat i'm the gale. and had they
| succeeded i'm doing this the exposure to
icy air and water would have killed them
in less than twenty-four hours. The Chi
! cora carried, including Captain Shines, n
crew of twenty-five, and there is said to
have been one passenger, Mr. Pearl, of the
| drug firm of Howard & Pearl. St Joseph.
Chicago went to sleep Friday night
many hours earlier than usual-undcr a
| blanket of snow which refused to remain
stationary, except in spots, for more than
, twenty minutes at n time. A shreking
forty-mile an hour gale blew "the beau
tifur' from sky to earth, half way back
again, and in more directions than the
average compass ha. points. And when
! the snow did settle down it settled for