Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-12
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Thomas Ryan. of Fcrt Wayne. Ind.
a wholesale dealer in tropical fruit and
commission merchant. assigned. with La
bilities estimated ut 81, y and assests
about 500.
DR.. Dexter V. Dean. of st. Louis. is
confined in the insane asylum ut his own
request, his diagnosis that he was suffer
Ing from paresis proving upon examina-
ton To be correct.
The st. Louis Court of Appeals has
affirmed the Judgment of 5000 awarded
Sarah VI. Pierce and james T.. Pierce
against A. Il. Carpenter. at Clayton. Mo-.
recently. because the latter kissed Mrs.
Pierce.
EX-Gov. Lewclling. of Wichita. author
lied his friends to announce that he will
not be "A candidate for Governor ut the
coming election. 1t has been supposed
that he would be Il candidate before the
Populist convention.
The ship Louis Walsh at Townsend.
Wash. from Callao. brought two of the
crew.. Steward Chase and Cook Mitchell.
from the ship Parthia. which was burned
at sea several weeks ago. 300 miles south
west of Juan Fernandez Island.
Officers raided Il counterfciters' den in
an old farmhouse. seven miles from Gin
ton. Mo. One of the gang who was on
guard escaped into Il hidden closet under
the stairway. The officers found Jim
Barnett molding spurious coin.
Judge Egan, of the st. Paul. Mimi.
District Court. issued an order permitting
the receivers of the Waiter A.. Woods IIar-
vester Company to make 10000 machines
this year. The assets OF the company cX-
ceed 81, 900. 900 besides the plant and real
estate, and all debts will he paid.
A hungry and destitute prospector.
while chasing a deer in the hope of Sc
curing Il square meal, discovered a fabu-
lously rich ledge in the Georgetown.
Mont. district. lie is said to nave ST.
OUO.Oo0 worth Of gold in sight aud his
prospect hole Is down but ten feet.
David Coulter, of Valley Falls. Kan,
was found guilty in the second degree for
the murder of Edward IllstOn near To-
peka a few months ago. Both were boys.
Coulter, who is 10 years old, shot %Illston,
dragged his body into a field. stole III
ston's wagon and drove to Valley Falls,
twenty-five miles distant. Coulter claim
cd the killing was accidental.
Joe Friedman. - years old, fatally
shot his former sweetheart, Julia Oelker,
dundee his rival and killed himself ut
81. Paul Monday evening about II o'clock.
The girl had recently thrown Friedman
over for a young man named II"f~ian.
The shooting was done in a fit of jealousy.
friedman having followed the young
couple as they left the heater and shot
them down with hardly !; warning.
Uungarians and Poles OF Whiting, Ind.
engaged in a riot ut Joseph Naovitik's
saloon Thursday afternoon, in which
three men were shot and killed and two
seriously wounded. Many more were in
Jured III the melee, but not serious enough
to require medical attendance. The trou-
BILE was the elimination Of n race war OF
long standing between the rival races EN-
ployed by the Standard Oil Company.
Gen. Benjamin Harrison is no longer Il
candidate for the Republican nomination
for the Presidency. Captain John *,
Gowdy, chairman of the Indiana Hcpubli
can State Central Committee. called on
Gen. Harrison at indianapolis Monday
evening by invitation, and the Pres
dent handed him n letter in which he
announced that he was not n candidate fol-
J the presidency, and expressed a wish that