Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-26
NEWS OF OUR STATE.
a WEEK eMOSG TIE HUSTlING
IiOOSlERS.
What Our Neishhors Arc Doins-Ma:ter.
OF General and Local MISUNDERSTANDING
and Deaths - Accidents and Crimes
Pointers About Our Own People.
minor State News.

self in the head with 3S-caliber revolver.
Financial troubles.
HENDERSON BIos. stock barns at
Kewanna burned. together with famous
stallion. Loss $1,000.
DIR. ). w. EDwINS of Elwood. has been
appointed medical examiner of the Ind;-
ana militia for Madison County.
Miss CLARA B. KELLY, Of Fl. Wayne,
was burned severely. Her clothing caught
fire from flying lit OF burning paper.
MRs PATRICK DUFFY of Wabash, was
fatally burned by her clothing catching
fire from a gas stove. She is - years old.
THREE valuable horses belonging 10
Jesse Beard, near Necdham's Station, were
poisoned one night recently by unknown
persons.
II. J. COLLINS, cOlored, of indianapolis,
was killed by an Erie train near Mobiles
Vile. lie is supposed 20 have fallen from
the train.
COUNTERFEIT silver dollars of unusually
good finish are circulating in several towns
in Montgomery County, and there is much
complaint.
l.. ID. KEPTISGEE. employed in saw
mill at LOOgootce. was dangerously hurt by
circular saw.
THE work of erecting the North Balti-
more glass factory buildings at Albany has
commenced. There will be eight buildings
and tive Smeters.
BURGLARS entered William SYMPTOMS
residence at Muncie while the family were
seated in front. and stole diamonds and
jewelry valued at 800.
FRED WEIDELI., aged Is, was killed in
Michigan City sawmill, by piece of
timber which rebounded from a circular
saw and struck him on the breast.
THE orchards in Washington Township,
Harrison County, are bending and break
ing so heavily are the fruit trees loaded.
The estimated value of the fruit crop is
placed al $4,000.
Mrs. THOMAS LEWIS, wife of a coal
miner Of Brazil has been notified that she
is heiress to SlG0,000 by the death of an
uncle at San Francisco, from whom she
had not heard for 20 years.
CAPT. J. T. FEE of Greencastle. has been
appointed by Gov. Matthews Major of tie
First Battalion, First Regiment Infantry,
l. y. e., TO the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Major IL. Z. Cornicx.
NELL Boone, jr., aged %, brakeman
On the middle division OF the Baltimore
and Ohio Southwestern railroad, was struck
by the spout of the water tank at
BrownStOwn, knocked from the car, and
his skull fractured. He will die.
HENRY EMMELMAN, clerk at J. l..
MOore's wholesale grocery, in Indianapolis,
was literally scalped by freight elevator.
He was leaning over the shaft when the
elevator descended. His skull was laid
bare from his forehead to the back of his
head.
BENJAMIN DcOLING, of VincenneS,
fooled with revolver, and there was an
accidental discharge of the weapon, the
bullet lodging in the shoulder of Richardson
Davidson. Davidson was dangerously
hurt and he was removed to Keensburg,
H., where his people live.
CHARLES THEMES of Michigan City,
who operated saloon in his hotel with tie
door opening on a small alley, and who
was arrested under the Nicholson law,
has been acquitted. the jury holding that
the alley was highway sufficiently With
in tie meaning of the law.
". +. Brown, of Rochester, and Lyman
Evans, 'trusties" in the prison South,
upon being sent to The prison garden for
vegetables. took advantage of the Oppol-
tuniiy TO escape. They were accompanied
to the garden by Cal Armstrong, the de-
faulting County Treasurer of Upton, but
he refused TO join in the flight.
TIE Board of Directors of the Northern
Indiana Prison have made the following
appointments: Chaplain. the Rev. i. j..
Curry of NObleSyii!e; physician, DR.. Spin
ming, COyingtOn: steward. ID. :. Durbn,
indianapolis. Warden Harley is authority
for the statement that United States con-
victs Will net be removed to LeavonwOrth
prison.
Patents have been issued to the follow
ing Indiana inventors: Russell w Gull
ford. aSsignOr to Auburn iron works,
Auburn. Ind, steamer engine; Harvey X.
Harris, Michigan City. moiStener and paper
weight: Frederick 7. Wright Fort Wayne,
assignor OF One-half to J. y. Neal, Cold
Water, Mich, wire fence; John +. Snapp,
Friction, fire alarm device; VIM. 5. Taylor,
Rensselaer,, hog ringer; John y. Wright,
Indianapolis. tack catchsr for bicycles.
Isaac GOODMAN. leader Of the notorious
Goodman gang, was released from the
Prison North on a pardon by Gov. Mat
thewS. and returned to Anderson. He is
now IS years of age. He received his train
lllS UlaCtl lilt ttuahAANils III INdit-
sas In 1860 he came 10 Indiana and or
gained gang. He educated his son Dick
in this line, and they headed the gang.
which made nightly raids. and plundered
everything within fifty miles. His house
was made depository. lie entertained no
one, and his house, which set back off of
the roads, was not invaded by callers of
any kind. His fortune continued TO grow,
until he was worth 100000. The gang
was rounded up at Summittyille two years
ago, and in the fight that followed Dick
Goodman WAS shot and all were taken
prisoners. The gang was sent up for nine
years. ISaac's years and failing heath,
and the fact that his wife was rapidly sink
ing, secured the pardon. He cannot last
long. Dick, who was shot several times in
the Summittyille fight, is in the hospital,
dying.
THERE is hermit living in thr Patoka
River bottoms, near lIeyden, who calls
himself Bill Cox. He tells story in ef-
feet that years ago bis family died unit.
none was left but himself and then g.
mysterious voice whispered in his ear that
bic lifA was in danCar and that no must