Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-01-11
WESTERN.

going on the stage Frank James says lie
has too much respect for himself and the
people TO insult their intelligence by going
on the stage and playing tie role Of stage
robber.
Mrs. Catharine Nolan died in Litcl,-
| field, ILL.,. Wednesday night. aged 112
Wicklow. Ireland. December -. 1872,
seven years before Washingtons in
aucurati0n.
Mary L. Lathrop died at jackson.
Mich. Thursday morning, aged 80 years
and 3 months. She was prominent i'll
national temperance circles. and WAS in
fiuential in establishing TIE Michigan re-
! form school for girls.
Six inmates Of the Pittsbur. (kas.) Jail
| (the entire complement of prisoners es-
capped Monday night by digging through
the outside walls of the corridor. passed
the night in drinking and carousing. AMI
returned TO the Jail next morning to coEl-
! plctc their sentences.
Supposed murjcrers of William H.
| Price, Il prominent citizen of Cleveland
who was murdered three weeks ago have
been arrested. They are Charles L.
Benz. Il coachman; Thomas Grant. n Ia
! borcr; j. johnson, carpenter: and Hen
ry Gruningcr, a small merchant.
William Bowers. marshal of the town
OF Gallup. y. NJ. has disappeared The
| citizens believe that he is the victim of
! foul play. His room indicates the pres
Cnce of intruders during the night. and
the finding of his pistols. star and hat on
the table in the room is taken as proof
| that he has been murdered
John Creamer OF Sedalia, Mo- is n big
man with a small wife whom he loves
very much. AT their home Tuesday night
he suddenly grasped her and gave her a
vigorous hug with his right arm. Mrs.
Dreamer lost her breath and when she
managed TO make al Outcry she was as
sisted to bed. The family physician found
three of her right ribs had been broken.
Assistant Cashier Frank H. Sparks, of
the Cincinnati Postoflice. took $JS3 from
the cash drawer while alone in the lunch
hour to make up shortage of $3.50. He
| then struck himself on the head so as to
cause an abrasion. lay on the floor to be
found apparently unconscious by the jan
itor, and then asserted he had been at
| tackled and robbed by two men. His
story was so faulty rs to arouse the
suspicion of the police, and when closely
pressed Sparks admitted his guilt.
James Nj. Walker of San Francisco,
formerly associated with Mackay, Fair,
Flood and O'Brien in mining ventures, IS
dead and will be buried soon after his old
partner, ex-senator Fair. Unlike him,
however, he leaves no estate to contest
Walker accumulated millions and went
to Philadelphia in 1872. lie lived lux
1 f,r taip 10
millions were soon lost in unfortunate
speculations in railroad stocks.
Within the last few days buyers of or
anges have been active i'm San Bernar-
dino, Cal, picking up choice lots at ain
! advantageous price. News of the disas-
ter to the crop in Florida has resulted in
an advance from so cents box. hereto
| fore offered in the orchard, to 81 box
| The growers are much encourage anil
are now holding No. l seedlings and navel
at from 81 10 to $50 box. J. E.Pace,
orange grower at Sanford Fla. has as
signed for the benefit of his creditors. He
| is said to have lost $4,000 by the freeze
BY the explosion of q boiler in G. Il.
Wilson's sawmill at Metz, Mo-, four men
We're badly hurt, two of them probably
! fatally. An explosion at the Meyer Coke
plant at Uniontown, Pa. resulted in the
injury of six men, four of whom will die.
! Corning mill No. . of the Miami Powder
works, located five miles north of Eenia,
Ohio, exploded, completely demolishing
the building and killing three men. Two
miners were at work in the coliery at
| Hazeiton, Pa, when the breast closed in
on them, crushing them almost beyond
recognition. Both men were married
and leave large families.
While trying to arrest two burglars,
who had just attempted to take n life,
PatrOlman Edward Duddles, of Chicago
was shot and instantly killed Thursday
night. The men accused of the crime are
Ed I.aly and Joseph Carey, members of
! the notorious gang that infests Market
street and the tough North Side district
known as Little He'll" If the policemen
| who obey Inspector Schaack's orders
carry out the mandate issued by him as
soon as he learned one of his men had
been killed while in the performance of
his duty the murderers will be brought
in on stretcher. Fifty officers were
detailed on this man-hunt and they prac-
| tically were told to kill on sight.
The ninth convOcation of the Unver-
sity of Chicago took place Wednesday
night at the Auditorium. Those who
locked for a donation from Mr.. Rookie
| Teller n result of the recent conference
between the university's founder and its
chief executive were not disappointed.
! Mr.. Rockefeller's contribution is $1I5,-
600, to be devoted to the general expense
fund for the scholastic year beginning
/ July 1, 1895. This gift. with the income
derived from other sources. provides the
university with 100000 for the expend-
lures of the year beginning July 1, 1895.
Mrs. Caroline L. Haskell, of Chicago,
! the donor of the Haskell Oriental Mu-
scum and founder of the $4,000 lecture
ship on comparative religions, announces
third donation of $4,000 for the found
| ing of n second lectureship on the rela-
tons of Christianity to other religions.
There was a wholesale hanging Of
horsethieves in the Cheyenne and Ara-
| pai,oe country the other day. The set
\ hav thx,