Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-07-26
WESTERN.


drowned at Milwaukee, Wis.
Engineer Mark Wickens. who went
down with the Santa Fc bridge 1T Monu-
ment, Colo. died, making the total mum
Der of fatalities thus far four. Brake
man Gardner is rapidly failing and is
not expected to survive. The others in
jurcd are doing well.
The Deadwood Terra mine, situated
few miles above Deadwood, S. d.,
which for seventeen years has been
worked as low grade property and
which during that time has paid dividends
amounting to over S1.JOO.O00, is again
in evidence as 4 gold producer.
At ST. Louis Arthur Busch dropped
dead, because of the excessive heat. He
was 30 years old, the son of a millionaire
brewer of Burlington, Iowa. He was a
bookkeeper for A. Graft & Co., liquor
dealers, secretary of the Western Rowing
Association and secretary of the ST. Louis
Turnvercin.
Specials from st. Joseph. Benton Har-
Dor and ether points in the fruit belt of
Western Michigan report Il terrific gale
carly Wednesday morning. reaching a
velocity Of seventy miles an hour. Many
We're blown down. and thousands of bar
rels of apples, pears and peaches blown
from the trees.
Two masked men held up n faro-bank
in Fred Steers saloon at Wallace. Idaho.
The bank had just closed and the pro-
prietor WAS Cushing up when two men
entered the saloon and ordered all hands
up. The robbers then took all the money
about S40O, and walked out. Several
shots were fred after them, but they dis
appeared in the darkness.
Rev. T. ]. Irwin, clergyman from
North Pond Greek. Oklahoma. is in Den
yer. seeking aid for the drought suffer
ers of that region. He represents most
dcplorable condition of affairs in the ter
ritory. A large portion of the people are
living on cracked wheat or cornmeal and
water. and some of them have no longer
money to buy even these.
David j. Martin, eX-member Of the
Denver fire and police board, committed
suicide by shooting. lie was one of the
commissioners whom Gov. Waite at
tempted to remove and who insisted upon
holding their Office until a decision had
been obtained in the courts sustaining the
Governors action. thereby prccipitating
the famous city hall warfare last year.
Financial reverses and i'll health are sup
posed to have been the cause of his sui
eide.
Surveyor of the Port English at San
Francisco has appointed an inspector of
the local customs house to investigate the
charge made by United States District
Attorney FOOte that imports are under
valued by the Federal inspectors. The
District Attorney recently wrote to the
Attorney General at Washington inform
ing him that imports were not only being
undervalued but large quantities of goods
were being Struggled. On account of his
failure to make specific charges the At
tOrney General refused to appoint a spe
cial inspector us requested.
Potter. Lowell & Co, of Boston, are
accused in bill filed in the United States
Circuit Court at Chicago Wednesday of
making fraudulent transfer of secur-
ties whose face value is 81, $4,000 to
John V. FarwelI & Co, on the eve of
their assignment The bill is an echo OF
the one filed by the assignees of Potter.
Lowell & Co. to secure u reconveyance of
the securities or an accounting from John
V. Farwell & Co. The disastrous failure
OF the Boston firm was the sensation of
the brief panic of August. 1890, when
200 per cent. was offered for money OH
call in Wall street.
Edward Larue, n barber Mt Oakland,
Cal, was whipped by his angry wife in
the presence of a large crowd Of people.
Laruc was sauntering up Broadway and
was pursued by his wife and her sister.
who supposed that he had meeting with
| woman. Mrs. Larue thought she saw
her husband going to speak to a woman,
SO she drew out n horsewhip from the
folds of her dress and made Il rush for
him. The sister acted as a second to the
wife and kept shouting. "Give it to him.
Give it to him. The appearance of the
police saved Larue from a worse whip
ping than he received
The registers of deeds i'm Kansas are
getting ready for big bonfire. These