Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-12
his name be not presented at the St. Louis

his name be not presented at the ST. Louis
convention.
An attempt was made to burglarize
Rogers x Sons bank in Bedford. Il Cleye-
land suburb. Thursday morning. The
front doors of the bank were forced open
by tools stolen from the Cleveland and
Canton p~ower-house. The safe was drill
ed and Il charge of dynamite put in. The
explosion blew off the trent door of the
safe. y second charge was put into the
middle door. The explosion failed To force
it off. but wrecked the entire safe. The
burglars escaped.
Joseph Il. Dunlop, publisher of the Chi
cagO Dispatch. was convicted Tuesday of
sending al obscene publication through
the United States mails by Il jury in
Judge Grosscup's court. This verdict.
arrived at 10y Il jury after four hours of
deliberation covering every technical
phase of the law and tine evidence. elected
no demonstration in court. Motion was
made for a new trial. Five counts com
prised the Indictment. Penalty is one
month to ten years Imprisonment, and
so TO 81 900 fine upon each count.
Nine hundred people cheered Mayor
IIazen :. Pingree of Detroit. Mich. Ia the
echo Thursday night in Central Music
Hall. Chicago. when he declared boOdling
aldermen and grabbing corporations were
worse than thieves in the night. The sub
ject of the lecture was Municipal Re
FORM The greater part of the audience
consisted of law students. for the lecture
was given under the auspices of the Chi
cago Law Students and Alumni Associa-
ton. The rest of the audience included
many who are workers fer reform in city
politics.
Scott Jackson. accused of the murder of
Pearl Bryan of G~reencastle. Ind, has
confessed his guilt and duplicates Alonzo
VI. Walling. Walling has also confessed
To a personal knowledge of the murder of
the girl. whose headless corpse was found
near Fort Thomas Friday night. Wall
ing tries to lay the whole blame on Jack
son. Jackson. OH the contrary. while he
admits his own guilt. takes pains to inn
plicate Wallins. The sachel which the
murdered woman took To Cincinnati on
Jan. 23 was shown to Jackson. He
would not admit that the head had been
in the satchel. but said it looked as if it
had been there. Jackson made his con
fession 10y small statements. He is OBJ
stinate and made il because he saw clouds
of evidence gathering around him. When
he admits the girl was murdered he does
ii as if Il third person had committed the
crime.
Chloroform and a revolver were the
agents with which Richard Klattke. Il
carpenter of Chicago. slew his entire fam
lily of six; then. turning the revolver upon
himself. he committed suicide. When res
idcnts in the vicinity burst into the home
early Wednesday morning they found
seven corpses. and Il superficial cNamina-
ton showed that each of Klattkc's vie
tins had been shot through the brain.
and that he himself had died i'm Il similar
manner No evidence of struggle existed.
and an empty chloroform bottle would in
dictate use of that anestlIctlc before the
shooting. Klattke was respondent. The
members of his family were cold AMI hun
gry. Since Christmas he had been out of
work and he ended his troubles just rs
relief was in sight. "Wednesday morning
his neXt-door n%cighbor. Adolph Schmidt.
called ut the cottage with the joyful news
that he had found IL job for Klattkc. AT
the same time Mr.. Brown arrived on IL
similar crrand. They came too late. just
how much no one knows. for the bodies
were cold when discovered.
Chicago is To be invaded by the soldier
boys of Dixie land. nearly 5000 strong.
g August. Unless plans miScarry.
each of thirteen Southern States will send
Il train load of its crack military organ
i~Zations to take part III the opening of the
Chicago-Southern States Exposition. The
present plans for military features 81 the
celebration will rival in grandeur AL other
attempts in this line, with The possible
exception of the dedicatory ceremony of
the Worlds Fair. Military authorities
of Illinois have been ut work for some
weeks making the preliminary arrange
mcnts. Gov. Altgcld and Gen. Wheeler
of the l.. y. G.. have approved the plan
and the Governors and military men Of
the Southern States are enthusiastic over
it,. Mayor Swift has invited the Govern
ors of thirteen Southern States To send
five delegates each TO a convention Feb.
ID to pass upon the plans already laid and
to arrange further details. Ii is proposed
to make the military features the most
noted element of the celebration, and.
from private adviccs already received
there seems to be no question of its sue
cess. Several States have agreed To send
their quota of troops.