Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-02-15
WESTERN.

A merciless cross-eXamination of BliXt.
the self-confessed murderer of Miss Cling
at Minneapolis, failed to shake his story.
Frank Il. Westgate was held up by two
men in his grocery store i'll Cleveland. o.
He struggled with one ald WAS fatally
shot.
Margaret Cook. who died at Columbus,
Ohio, was aboard Fulton's steamship
Clermont when its initial trip was made
in 1907.
Two trolley cars collided on an ele-
waited railroad in Kansas City. OF the
forty passengers on board only four were
injured.
United Mineworkers, in session at
Springfield, ILL.,, called upon Governor
Altgeld and thanked him for his stand
for labor.
The subscriptions to the new San Joa-
quin Valley Railroad in California are
now within $4,000 of the 100000
limit needed.
George Spence, prominent lawyer of
Springfield, Ohio, and once Democratic
candidate for State treasurer, is dead,
aged &C years.
An inexperienced motOrman in Brook
lyn drove his trolley car into n willie
hearse, spilled the coffin into the street
and smashed it. The coffin contained
the remains of 1O-year-old child.
The Rev. ]. S. Reid, a Baptist minis
ter. attempted TO rob the First National
Bank of East Portland, Ore, covering the
cashier with revolver and binding and
gagging him. He was caught before he
,.ouIJ N, To hic occonn tbouUbt bv
some that the minister is insane.
California has experienced the most de-
lightful weather during the last three
weeks. The bountiful rains of the early
winter started everything to growing and
the warm weather following has put all
crops into fine shape. There have been
no damaging frosts during the entire
winter.
A special from Standish Mich, says
the entire family Of John Book, consist
ing of himself wife and four children,
burned to death Wednesday morning ut
Omer. 1t is supposed that L hot stove
pipe which passed through the floor caus-
ed the fire. The bodies were charred be-
yond recognition.
James Mutt, famous as the slayer of
w. w. DukcS, III OnsOHtOWll, IL. ten
.-ears ago, Tuesday night fatally wound
cd Mrs. Jesse Peyton near AtchisOn
Kan, and put three bullets into Leonard
Coleman, injuring him seriously but prob
ably not fatally. Mutt was himself so
badly hacked with an axe that he will die.
Guilty of manslaughter as charged
was the verdict of the jury in the Healy
Moran murder case at Chicago. The
same document fixed the punishment of
the two defendants at fourteen years
each i'm the penitentiary. The two were
policemen, and, while drunk, they shot
and killed Swan Nelson, in December,
1893.
Charles Reichard and Jacob Frienstien.
cigar-makers of Huntington, Ind, started
out for sleigh ride the other night, and
at n late hour were found in street at
the edge of the city so badly frozen they
can hardly recover. Both have their
hands, feet, and ears frozen so they will
have to be amputated, even if the men
survive.
Three of the crew of n Rock Island
train did heroic work to rescue the pas
sengers on n train that was stuck fast i'm
n snow drift near Lebanon, Kan. The
men volunteered to go to Lebanon for re-
lief. They took the bell cord, fastened
themselves together, and started through
the binding snow storm and drifts for
the town.
V. l.. Sisseia, of Colombo, Ceylon,
dealer in teas and Worlds Fair Commits
sioner from Ceylon, was put off Louis
vile and Nashville train at Belleville,