Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-04-26
Condensed state News.


new system, costing $4,000.
THREE towns in Miami County are
named Chilli. Ebenezer and Gilead.
FRANKFORT has decided TO put down
brick pavement on its principal streets.
THE residence of John Freisheimer,
pioneer of Delaware county. was destroyed
by fire.
Mrs. SNARE. near LOogOotee. accident
ally fell in a barrel of water and was
drowned.
RICHARD HART a Panhandle brakeman,
was crushed to death 10y switch engine at
Richmond.
lie. WOLFE. editor of the Terre IIaute
Journal. was found dead in Il bath tub.
Heart disease.
GEORGE W. KIGAR. in Warren County,
was almost instantly killed in an accident
at his saw-mll.
HENRY BERNING. an Allen County
farmer was fatally injured in a runaway
near Fort Wayne.
OSCAR Ham. laborer. fell from wagon
at Lebanon. and was impaled on an iron
rod, fatally injurimg him.
STEPHEN GREGORY, farmer east of
| Brooklyn, was found insane wandering
over the streets al Brooklyn.
ADDISON ALBEITSoN, a farmer near
! Munce. fell under a wagon loaded with
! thing. and was instantly killed.
THoMAs Hurt. prominent Miami
county farmer. committed suicide 10y hang
| ING himself in the barn with log chain.
\ CHILD of the late widow SpoonmoOre,
of Star City. fell from the hotel porch. a
distance of fourteen feet. and suffered in
| iurieS which proved fatal.
THE third gas company has just been or
ganizcG at Farmland with james X. L.
Gray. president: II. J.. Wilson. secretary;
! y. ". COnyers, treasurer.
PROF L. O. Morn. of Richmond. Superin-
tendent OF the Wayne County schools. has
been elected TO the SUPPLEMENTARY of the
Madison Ind. schools for next year.
THE farmers of Wayne and Henry
/ counties. near Dalton. are making an at
tempt to head off robbers and thieves.
BIoOdhounds will he purchased by popular
subscription.
SCorT STIvERS. insane. Liberty. imag-
med God had ordered him TO torture him
self. and he gouged $50 wounds into his
body with a knife. II took several people
10 overpower him. May die.
Mr.. ID. \. COULTER. cashier OF tho
Farmers Bank. of Frankfort. has contract
ed with an indianapolis firm for a ten
thousand-dollar mausoleun. To be erected
on his lot al Grccnlawn Cemetery.
.JorIN ALBoMSoN. fifty years old. while
hauling tile TO his farm new Farmland. his
team ran away and the loaded wagon
passed over his body. breaking his back
and otherwise injuring him. lie cannot
recover.
IT is announced from Ingalls, that there
are more families in town than there are
houses. and some people are living IN
wOodSheds until houses can be completed.
ingalls, promises TO have relapse of the
boom fever.
Buck" STANLEY. OF LoeanSpOrt. Ind.
is conducting a temperance campaign in
Boonville. The meetings have fairly be-
| gun and over TWO hundred have signed the
total abstinence pledge. \ good citizens
! club will be organized.
DIR. THoS. L. REDDING of New Castle,
widely know in methodist circles. fell into
a ciStern. and was downad. lie was 81
years OF age and had attained considerable
1 prominence "a a scientist. Vas formerly
a newspaper man and later a lawyer.
DEPARTMENT Commander Shiyeley. OF
the G.. y. r.. has made known the follow
ing appointments made by him: Senior
| aid-de-camp, Henry {. Tinney. OF La
fayette: department Inspector, Joseph Gill,
OF Washington; Judge advocate, i. +. VIII
lamS. OF " abaSh: chief mastering officer,
\. +. Spaulding. of Wabash; e0lOrbearer,
{. VI. SailerS, OF Wabash.
BAPTISM very much ont OF the ordinary
was conferred on four babes at the First
Presbyterian Church. Muncie, by Rev.
! Hays. 4 few weeks ago Mr.. and Mrs
John III. Hartley returned from a twelve
months trip TO foreign lands, and while
! gone visited the River Jordan Mr.. Hart
ley secured a quantity of water from the
stream. and this was used 10y Rev. Hays in
administering the sacred rites.
IL gas explosion, three miles north of
| ElwoOd, Jlree men. Tom DSlcr. Frank
Mcclure and William Gates. We're badly
| burned. 1t is thought all viii recover.
The explosion occurred at a new ly-drilled
gas well and the men were engaged IN
/ packing it. The explosion wrecked the
derrick and the well continued TO burn
long after the derrick WAS in ashes. The
foreman of the gang of drillerS. whose
names is Claver, then rugged up some pipes
and connected the steam pipe with the
gas we'll and succeeded in deluging the eS-
Gaping gas with steam, eXtinguishing the
fame.
PATENTS have been issued To the follow
! inc persons in Indiana: Melvil Il. BOudi-
not, NincenneS. wagon: Philip G.. Decker,
! Anderson, means for separating gas and
water or Gas and oil: Winfield Dunckcl.
Terre IIaute. fitting hoist: Asa Il. Hoy and
IL. ID. Harris, said Hoy assignor 10 V. IL.
Lockwood. indianapolis, valve lock;
Walter \. Scott, Evansville, gig saddle;
Charles y. TeetOr, Muncie railway veloci-
pede Martin Wanncr. Yorktown, process
and apparatus for refrigeration: Dwight
W. Williamson, f. !. Mlholand and c. y.
KeSser, aSSignorS TO ID. W. Williamson q
Co. and Adams X Williamson. indianapolis
pressure plate fer veneer cutting machines;
James J. Wood, Fort Wayne, electric
| switch.
JOHN SMITH of kokomo. went insane.
and, after burning his clothing and furni
ture, tried To Kill his wife and children, hut
the prompt arrival of the police prevented
| the tragedy