Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-10-11
INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

ing for drink of water, when she was
supposed to have been dead since Satur-
day. She had been a sufferer from
dropsy for several years. She will prob
ably recover.
\ stabbing affray occurred Monday
night at Wolf Lake, Noble Couty, in
which man by the name of Lyons
received fatal injuries. John Moore is
the man who did the stabbing The
fight was the outcome of a dispute
over the possession of house \ man
by the name of dOover owned the house
and wanted it for Moore his son-in-law.
Lyons had possession and when they
went there ordered them off.
Henry Williams, OF near Lafaye tie
meet his death in well by suffocatiOn
from gas. He had gone down to clean
it out. \ doctor was called when the
fact was discovered but it was too late
to do him any good.
G. II. Young of Marion who made
an assignment of his grocery stock to
E. +. Freidline has disappeared. His
liabilities are from 5000 to $1,000, his
assets are not yet known.
The Lima Gas Company shot the
we'll they were digging on the farm of
Eli Peterson near Shelbyville Monday
and got the strongest gas well in that
part of the gas belt and also causing
a flow of OIL They are getting 10 bar
rels per day.
Mrs. John Parr residing four miles
south of sheridan was accidently
burned to death saturday. 1t is sup
posed that her clothing became ignited
from a gas stove. She was alone at
the time
The court of inquiry in regard to
silver ware stolen by militiamen az
Peru opened at that city Monday. Mill
tary ethics control the court and the
the crime.
The trial of Frank Work for murder
in the first degree opened in the circuit
court at Shelbyville Monday. He is
charged with striking his uncle Soloman
Swango on the temple with heavy
dray pin last August, from the eff
feet of which he died in two hours.
The Terre Haute police are looking
for certain professor and "a Mrs. Mar
shall, who recently located there and
advertised to cure all diseases to which
man is heir, as trance mediums. Mrs.
Alice st. John, one of the victims, pad
them 500 Saturday, for which they
were TO cure her of nervous com
plant within forty days. The profess
sor also persuaded her to give him so
with which to buy winning lottery
ticket.
VIM. Barnett, United States con
Wet at prison soulh, Jeifersonville, was
found dead IN his cell Sunday morning.
ApopleXy WAS the cause. He was sent
from Kentucky to serve three years for
counterfeit money.
Mrs. Sarah BuZzard, of Wayne town
ship, Huntington county, has brought
suit for $4,000 damages against Peter
Minnich, of Warren. for injuries alleged
to have been caused by using a cancer
cure prescribed by Minnich. Mrs. BuZ-
zard applied the cure to an inslpient
on her nose and as result a
large portion of that organ was eaten
away.
Ezra Feet, aged fifty, Of near Vim
cennes, shot and killed Clark Isham,
aged Il, Saturday night. Both had
been to town and drinking and on re-
home quarreled over week.
wages, which Isham claimed was due
him. 1t is claimed that ISham seized
an axe aud attaced Feet, who ran into
the house, secured shot gun and gave
him the contents of both barrels. The
shot struck ISham in the thigh Severing
an artery, from which the victim bled
to death. Isham worked for Feet and
boarded at his house. Feet made no
to escape and was arrested by
Sheriff ruckles, taken to VincenneS and
committed to Jail.
Wayne county's wheat fields are suf-
fering much from the lIessian fly
Joseph Slavik, of Evansville, whose
wife eloped with one Chester Ill. Brown
last Thursday, followed the guilty
couple and Yesterday located them in
private boarding house at Wabash, liv-
ing under an assumed name as man
and wife, and claiming to have been
married in st. Louis. He had them
both arrested on charge of adultery
and placed in Jail. Brown was bailed
out by his brother but the woman will
probably remain in jail until Thursday,
the day the trial is set for unless she is
forgiven and taken home by the injured
husband. which is possible, as she
,eems very penitent.
w. Il. Il. Swain, editor of the Chron-
cle and Edening News at Button,
Ind, died of typhoid fever at IL o'clock
Sunday morning. He was thirty-four
years old and newspaper man of
much ability. He leaves wife.