Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-10-04
WESTERN.

Typhoid fever is becoming epidemic in
! the Wisconsin regions recently visited
by forest fires. A number of deaths have
been reported.
At Caldwell. Kan. James Il. Sherman
a relative of Gen. Sherman and former
comrade of Col. Cody and Wild Bill, has
been acquitted of the murder of Mayor
Meagher. of Caldwell, twenty-one years
ago. 1t was the last of the cowboy bat
! ties.
! The Committee on Nominations pre-
scented its recommends tons at the Open
| ing of Thursday mornings session of the
| deep waterways convention in Cleveland
| Ohio for the reelection of the old officers
and the election OF seventeen members of
! the Executive Board The report was
promptly adopted.
| 4 great sensation has been caused ut
! St. Joseph, Mo-. by the mysterious disap-
| p1arance of 1J-year-old Maud Stcidel
who stepped out of her mothers home
! the other night and has not been seen
since. The mother of the girl openly ac
cuses Dominick Wagner with having
| spirited ler daughter away.
At Milwaukee, Wis. the grain elevator
gether with 10000 bushels OF wheat and
$4,000 bushels of barley. The loss OH the
! grain will be about $50 600 and the 10 s n
the elevator itself about 5000. All fully
covered by insurance. The building was
! owned by the Martin estate.
1T Norton, Kan.. Morgan Heaton made
q desperate attempt to kill J. NJ. Craig,
| n Plattsmouth. Neb., banker and failing,
! turned his revolver on Cashier W. I.
| Shoemaker. of the Norton State Bank
The bullet directed ut the latter also went
wide of its mark. and IIeaton was finally
arrested. Family affairs caused the trou-
BILE
Three women. Mrs. Zinner, Mrs Firm
wood. and Mrs. DIETRICH. who were
charged with assaulting and tarring and
feathering j. Wena. teacher. ut st.
Cloud. Mimi. paid fines and costs aggre-
eating 50. Attorney Reynolds, who de-
tended the women. made IN effort 10
prove the conditions III the school district
were so bad that the women were justi-
fled III their conduct, but the court ruled
out all the testimony except that bearing
simply on the assault.
Forty passengers, many of them wom-
en- who started across the lake from Chi
cago for st. Joe on the steamer Puritan
Sunday morning returned to Chicago in
the afternoon because the boat had been
unable To make Il landing or the other side
of the lake. When they came down the
gang plank after their trip they were
about as scasck Il looking: lot of passen-
gers as one would see in many day.
Most of them declared it had been n
O,. no oil
the boat so that many never expected to
land alive.
Fire in the Minneapolis Chamber s,f
Commerce for Il time threatened the de-
struction of the building The flames
We're. however. confined to the upper
floors. although the entire building was
drenched. The Chamber of Commerce
is q handsome fvestory stone struc-
ture. at Third street and Fourth avenue
south, two blocks from the milling dis
trct. 1t erected in 1881 al Il cost of
S1SO.0uD. 1t is the center of the grain
trade, the Corn Exchange and Flour FIX
change occupying adjacent corners. The
loss is estimated AT $4,000 on the build
ing and $4,000 on the contents. The in
surance Oh the building is $125.OOO.
The following notice posted at Poca-
tello. Idaho, has brought forth indignant
protests:
department of Interior. United
States Indian Service Notice: No
tice is hereby given A. w. Fisher. Mrs.
"A. W. Fisher, his wife; julie Fisher his
son. or any immediate members of his
family to keep off the Fort Hall reserva-
ton. THOMAS Il. TETER
''Unlted States Indian Agent, Fort Hall
Agency.
The Fishers. who have considerable
influence with the Indians. recently cir
culated petition for the removal of
Agent Teter.
Passengers at Spokane Wash. from
Trail Creek. Il. c., report Il horrible crime
i'll that mining camp. Norris O'Connor,
a prospector owning several claims. took
q mining expert named Cook to look at
them. lie and Cook camped out on Il
mountain, and during the night O'Connor,
who had been drinking heavily. arose
and. taking Il pick, drove it throug.
Cooks brain. pinning his head to the
ground. He then graspcd an TX and fin
ished his bloody deed by hacking his vie
tim in Il horrible manner. The mutilated
body WAS found the next morning by
some miners, who organized a posse and
soon captured O'Connor. 1t is thought
OConnor committed the deed while
crazy from drink. Cook represented
rich syndicate purchasing mines.
a thief committed bold robbery on n
Wabash train the other Il. ght as it stopped
Mt the Archer avenue depot. i'm Chicago.
A young and well dressed man sprang ON
the steps of the rear coach just as the
train was slowing up and, brushing past