Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-09-06
WESTERN.

1T Is reported III IAcilo. w. tHiit
Capt Baldwin. L. $. A.. acting agent at
the Kiowa. Comanche and Apache agen-
cy at Anadarko. was murdered by In
dians. The report lacks verihcation, but
Federal officers credit it.
The home of Paul Alonski. Cleveland,
Ohio. was destroyed by fire and his J-year-
old daughter. Polly. persisted in the
flames. In attempting to rescue the child
Alonski was severely burned, and while
looking for the body in the rooms Capt
Mckenzie. of the fire department. was
injured by falling into 4 hole filed with
burning debris.
Theodore Il. Gillum. of Indianapolis.
supreme organizer of the Oriental
League. was stabbed in the neck and in
stantly killed by James Burnett at Louis
vile. The man who committed the muir
der attempted to gain admission to an
entertainment without a ticket and had
been elected by Mr.. Gillum. The muir
derer escaped.
Coroner Castor of Marion County In
diana. is in possession of the premises
where the bones of young Howard Pitzel
were found at Irvington. An eXamina-
ton of the bones by the coroner showed
| that the large ones. which could not ut
llTSl Ut uTc I)itItS VI tllc ltlNlS.
Holmes will be indicted in Marion Coun-
ty for murder, but no effort will be made
to take him there. as evidence against
| him elsewhere is thought to be sufficient
to convict him.
When the Painesville Ohio, Savings
| Bank collapsed four years ago among the
assets found was $2J0.OOO worth of stock
! in Western mine. At that time the mine
hut
appears to be valuable. The mine is
! paying fair dividend. and the stock is
nearly at par. The indications are that
the depositors in the wrecked bank will
be paid good dividend. with the pros
poets that ultimately they may receive
their deposits back i'm full.
A large number of prominent residents
of cities along the projected route of the
canal from Michigan City to Toledo were
| in Cincinnati for the purpose of effecting
Il permanent organization. The principal
| plan so far moOtcd contemplates Il ship
canal from Toledo to Lake Michigan by
way of Laporte. South Bend, Elkhart and
| Goshen. There is another projected route
through the Michigan peninsula, but it
is contended by geological experts that
this would be impracticable.
The thousands of people Mt the Blan-
chester, o., fair missed the lest part OF the
balloon ascension. Prof. Tolbert. the
aeronaut. had a narrow escape from be-
ing gOrcd by bull in the field in which
he descended with his parachute. The
beast deserted his red tights and the
parachute before he reached the ground
AS soon the professor alightcd the bull
charged him. Tolbert flew for his life
| un1 SsrarnhlnI nv thc fnpca ~ i'm tirnn
to escape the horns of the bull. The
aeronaut says he was never worse fright
ened in his life.
Three little children of q Sullivan, Mo-,
widow named Jenkins went to Il place
near the barn To gather eggs. The place
was rather out of the way and dangerous,
owing TO snakes, which are numerous in
that region. One child thrust its hand
into what it supposed was the hens nest
and quickly withdrew it, exclaiming that
the hen peckcd it. The other two children
put i'm their hands with the same result.
The mother ran to the assistance of the
three children. who had been bitten by II
rattlesnake. During the excitement her
little babe fell into the well and was
drowned. and the three other children
also died.
Harry Brown, the well-known comic
opera comedian, whose home is in Port
land, Ore, after years of ill-luck has
obtained fortune in a peculiar manner.
| While filling Improbable engagement
i'll Cleveland he cured hitherto incurablc
melancholia patient the young son of
wealthy parents. The boy was afflicted
with suicidal mania and accidentally saw
Brown and laughed for the first time
in his life. Brown became young Kel-
logg's physician and cured him. When
Mrs. Kellogg died recently she bequcath-
ed comfortable fortune to Brown.
Brown will go to San Francisco and to
the south of France, where he will spend
the winter.
Thirteen miners i'm the Sleepy Hollow
mine, Central City, Colo, were working
Thursday afternoon in the drifts, when
suddenly torrent Of water came stream
ing down the shaft, and, sweeping debris
] before it, choked up the entries and pas