Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-05
WESTERN.

james Gillespie was run over by Il Fan
handle train ut Elwood, Ind, and in
stantly killed.
Ex-President George +. Magoun, of
Iowa College, is very i'll at his home in
Grinnell, Iowa. and is not expected TO live.
He was the first president of Iowa College
and served for twenty years. lie is Il
member of the American board. AM is
well known in religious and college circles
East and West.
Gov. Rich pardoned Bartholomew
Sands, one of the oldest convicts i'll the
prison at Jackson. Mich. He was con
victed in the Circuit Court from Oakland
County of crimina assault and sentenced
Sept. 20. 1S69. to life Imprisonment. He
has always maintained he was innocent
of the charge.
At Colville. Wash. Judge Arthur SEN
fenced Adolph Nicse and his wife To
twenty years in the penitentiary for beat
ing their 1o-year-oli son 10 death. Short
ly after the prisoners were placed in their
cells both cut their throatS with Il razor.
Nie>e is dead and his wife is in a critical
condition.
At the coroner's inquest on the bodies Of
Engineer Clark Triinble and Foreman
'tOlSt NdttIS. VIZ Nfit hlittI by the
recent expulsion of Il locomotivc boiler
near South Charleston. Ohio. on the Penn
sylvania Railroad. it was conclusively
shown that the explosion was caused by
their own neglect in letting the water in
the boiler get too low.
St. Pauls chances for entertaining the
veterans of the Grand Army Of the Re
public next September received a setback
Tuesday by the action of the Western
Passenger Association, and as Il result
of the arbitrary stand taken by that rail
road octopus, the national -encampment
of 1896 may have to be abandoned en-
tlrely. The association insists upon a
~seven-day limit to all tickets.
In the trial at Wichita. Kan. of +. NJ.
Williamson, charged with numbering
Henry ii. Leonard to secure the %latter's
life insurance. Michael Jordan, an old
soldier, swore that Williamson approach
ed him last October, Il month before the
crime was committed, and suggested that
he knew where 500 could easily be made.
Williamson told him that he knew Of a
woman who held n $1,000 insurance policy
on the life of Leonard. and that she would
give Soto of the insurance to Il man that
would kill him. Williamson told Jordan
All II ueldllS OF the scheme. anu .IOfuln
repeated them in court. The theory of the
State has always been that Williamson
consented 10 IL divorce from his wife that
she might marry Leonard. under agree
mcnt that they would afterward kill
Leonard Ia get the insurance on his life.
" i~mpccunious young men, said to
be from New England and giving the
names of Mason NJ. Totten and c.. r..
| Jlallt1av ln,~ Ia.,, n.r.At - L-...
City by postoflice inspectors from Denver
and ST. Louis. The prisoners are accused
of having used the United States mails
in swindling several mining stock brok-
ers of Denver. Their plan. operating
from Kansas City. was TO send urgent re-
quests by mail for certain mining stocks,
inclosing checks on Kansas City banks
covering the market value of the shares
asked for. Neither of the men had u cent
In bank. In this manner they secured 20
y shares of stock from two Denver
brokers in exchange for worthless checks
for $3.50. The stocks have all been re-
covered. The swindlers were preparing
To visit Chicago. where they hoped to sell
their shares on the mining exchange.
There has been u good deal of news
paper ak lately about fusion between
the Democrats and Populists in Kansas
this year. with George w. Click as the
candidate for Governor. While such "A
combination is possible, it is not probable,
says a Topeka dispatch. Many of the
Democratic leaders are opposed to any
kind of n coalition with the Populists.
claiming that it would result disastrously
to their organization. rs did the arrang
ment of 1892. The Populist leaders also
are opposed to fusion. Those who are
outspoken for fusion are Democrats and
Populists who prefer anything to Repub-
licanism. This faction is greatly in the
minority. but il is growing. However, it
Is the opinion of conservative Democratic