Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-03-08

ureS adorned. i he garments were made
of tissue paper of all sizes and colors
They were deity pinned on every show
bill in the city. Instead of the gay
dansueSe with pink tights one saw the
dcmurc girl. of good church society. with
neck yokrS, rulfed sleeves, and flowin.
skirts. The window hangers were adoru-
Cd in tho same manner. Long tea gowns.
Mother lluhbardS and loose wrappers
concealed the pictures Of the pink burlvs-
quers. As result of the unique adycr-
tisementS the show had Il packed house.
At the bottom of the third column of the
last page Of Sundays Chicago Times were
the words The end" They gave the rea-
son why the presses were silent in the
Times building Monday morning for the
first time in over forty years. excepting
when the ashes left 10y the great fire of
1871 covered them. \ valcdictoTy on the
editorial page signed 10y Adolf kraus and
an editorial announcement in the Herald
added significance 10 the TWO little words
which constituted the farewell message
of the men who gathered the news. set
the type. east the plates and handled the
great presses in the making of the news
paper. The end came when the last paper
on the engine had been closed Long
before that. however. the reporters. writ
ers and managers upstairs had gone. leay-
ing the presses To issue their own vale
dictury. The Times has been absorbed
hy the Herald, and only It's name and his
tory are left to tell of the great paper
which Wilbur r. Storey made.
Public Indignation ut Chicago found Il
voice in two monster mass meetings sun
day afternoon. called 10y the Civic Fed
Grafton. One meeting only had been call
ed. but 80 widespread was the Indignation
that Central Music Hall was large enough
FOR less than half the citizens. The Sec
ond Regiment armory was rented. and
there the utteranccs of protest went up
as loudly as they did At the parent meet
ing. The cry that went up was one for
reform and for independence in local poll
tics No other sentiment was thought of
or given Il hearing ri either of the meet
ings. Every time any of the speakers
made an appeal along these lines he was
sure of hearty applause. The stronger
his Pronunciation the better he pleased his
hearers. People seemed To forget all ideas
of Sunday behavior. They arose in their
seats when they were particularly we'll
pleased. and yelled 10 the speaker: Hit
EN- again" 1t was not a meeting fruit
less in its action. While set of reSolu-
lions was adopted men were appointed 10
see that It's provisions were carried out.
Fire, attended by many of the scenes
of the great cOnflagration of 1871, caused
the total destruction Wednesday of the
Charles Kaestner * Co. building, 20
jefferson street, and section of the
Crane Manufacturing COmpanys big
plant adjoining on the north; scorched
many neighboring structures and placed
the lives of scores of panic-stricken girls
and children in jeopardy. Two hundred
and seventy-five girls employed in the
Lancaster Caramel Company. Il block
away from the fire. were maddened by
fright and rushed down narrow stair
way. In their flight several fell and were
trampled on and severely injured by the
others. The greediest. angriest and most
whipping flames that have bafiied the fire
department for years consumed over a
half million dollars worth of prop
erty in the short time of sixty minutes,
scorched 4 dozen or more hremen and
supplied n southwest gale with clouds of
cinders and brands that were carried into
the heart of the business district of the
city for over Il mile from the scene of the
fire. But angry as the fire was. Chief
Swene and his assistants checked its
progress when it appeared to be GER
tainty that Il major portion of the West
Side manufacturing district was in immi
nent danger
At 4:05 o'clock Friday afternoon the
Barnes murder ease was given to the
jury ut Chicago and exactly four hours
later the twelve men re-entcred the court
room and announced the following YER
diet Edmund Jordan was found guilty
of the murder of Alfred ID. Barnes and
his punishment fixed at imprisonment for
life Annie Mahoney was found guilty
of murder as an accessory after the fact
which imposes upon the court the duty
of declaring what her punishment shall
be. In connection with such verdict
the law gives no right TO Il jury 10 atliX
a penalty. Judge Freeman will declare
what her punishment shall be. John
Bissell Jersey. also indicted as an acceS-
sorry after the fact, was acquitted. .Jor-
dan killed Barnes with an AK in the fur
mace room of the lliawatha flats the even
ing of Dec. >. With the help of Jersey
he stripped the body of clothes and tried
To cut it in pieces with the AK, so as TO
burn it in the furnace Failing in that,
with the help Of Annie Mahoney, they
put the body in the box. procured wagon
and drove with the ghastly load to the
place where the box and body were found
Inspector Hunt and the officers of the
Hyde Park police station succeeded in
getting confessions from the three
SOUTHERN.