Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-18
NEWS NUGGETS.

The Changers Bank at San Francisco
has closed its doors. Liabilities, $3.50,
029; assets. 81. 100000.
Rich gold deposits in which an Ameri-
can firm is interested. have been dis
covered near Mendoza. Argentine Re
public.
Sunday morning saw an innovation in
the choir of the Grace Episcopal Church.
Detroit. A dozen women surpliccd were
added TO the choir under the direction of
Prof Remck
Francis Schlatter. the Healer" is at
Santa Cruz. thirty miles north of Santa
Fe, y. Nj. At RanchItos de Taos 800
people greeted him. lie blessed hand
kcrcLiefs and cured many persons.
Herr Ahwarlt the German 'Jewbait-
er," made his first appearance on ,he
American lecture platform at New York
Thursday night. His audience WAS
small, but enthusiastic. Only one of the
bad eggs thrown ut the speaker struck
the mark
Judge Thomas l.. Nugent. one of the
ablest minds in Texas. the leader and
twice the candidate of the Populists of
Texas for Governor and who has been
prominently mentioned in connection
with the Presidential nomination in 1896
Oh the Populist ticket. is dying at his
home i'll Fort Worth with diabetes
The contract recently let by the Cana
dian Government for the carrying Of the
mails from Juneau, Alaska. 10 Forty Mile
Creek is in the disputed territory to which
claim is laid both by the United States
and by Canada. and the establishment
of the mail service is calculated To fur
Their complicate the boundary dispute.
4 report from Antananarivo. Madagas-
car. says that an anti-European mob
numbering 5000 destroyed the mission
station at RamairandrO. Rev. Mr.. Me
Mahon. the missionary in charge and his
family escaped Il few hours previous 10
the looting Of the mission All Europeans
residing in the country districts have
been ordered To the capital and 6U
French troops have been dispatched with
orders to put down the riots.
The secret service officials have dis
covered Il new counterfeit $50 United
States notes of the series Of 1880 with the
portrait of Hamilton poorly engraved
The paper shows red ink lines in imita-
ton Of silk fiber The lettering is very
on the person Of Louis Smith who has
been arrested at Toledo. Ohio. where
he had already passed five Of them. He
is believed TO be new in the business.
Some misapprchcnsion exists rs to the
exact features of the bill introduced by
Senator Lodge for restricting imr., gra-
ton. The bill provides for keeping out
such immigrants rs cannot read and
write in some language. while the impress
sion has obtained that it means that inn
migrants who cannot read and write the
English language are to he prohibited |
Senator Lodge says the latter provision
would be absurd. as many desirable inn |
migrants come to this country who are |
highly educated in their own language |
and who do not understand English.
In rush for liberty at the Louisville |
workhouse James Howard. Il negro who |
led the escaping prisoners. was shot dead |
by the guards. The prisoners were being |
FOLLOWED by n number of other convicts. |
The guards firc,: several shots in the air |
and the ringleader was finally brought |
down by Guard Lynch. who has been ar
rested.
Obituary: At Cincinnati. ex-Congress-
ihdli II. -. puH"!, CA 'raiiu nap
ids. Mich, Col. Van +. Young. I3.-At |
H.. f.. w. Lcdbctter-At |
Galena. ILL.,. Charles Flcck: James Birk-
ettc.-At Aurora. Ind. Mrs :. Il. Davis. |
Pearl Barton, the Wilkcsbarre girl |
who has been asleep since Nov. ~ died |
morning without awakening.
Recent compilations show Senator
Sherman one of eleven children TO begin
with. to be now thirty seven times an
uncle and the graGduncle to sixty-three