Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-11
All Over the State.

Brcinig Brothers X Co. furniture deal
crs of Terre Haute. have made an assign.
ment 70 their father. The stock and ac-
counts invoice $4,000. which will pay
all claims.
Samuel Rigncy. 4 pioneer and one Of the
wealthy farmers OF the county. died AT
Tcrre Haute from hiccoughing. He had
been suffering with hiccoughs for several
months. and Sunday they caused paraly.
IS. which caused his death.
Fire at Logansport destroyed the stock
of Jesse HaineS. toys and notions. entail
ing loss Of 5000 The fire caused
panic among the families living over the
store and only heroic work of the firemen
saved several women from sufocation.
Rev. W. c. McCraig was given his dis
missal at Markleville on decidedly pecu-
liar grounds. He has been holding revival
meetings. and it is claimed that his meth
DDS. or something about him. made people
90 insane One of the flock labored under
the Authorization that he could see into
the bowels of the earth and told what he
saw there. John Markle. another of the
flock, is in jail and thinks he Is God. Sew
eral others are getting cranky, but Me
Craig contends that it is not due to him.
William Billiard. who was released from
the penitentiary six months ago, after
serving a five-year sentence for attempted
murder. was taken to Columbus from
Hope where he attempted to assault Miss
Minnie Murphy. and lodged in jail TO es-
cape the vengeance of Il mob of infuriat-
ed citizens which was being formed 10
lynch him. Billiard WAS drunk at-the time
of making the assault and says he has no
recollection of the attempted crime. He
pleaded guilty to the charge before JUS
tce and was bound over in the sum OF
500. which he was unable to give.
Bv far the most sweeping litigation that
was ever inaugurated in this State was
begun Tuesday. under the direction of the
Republican State Central Committee. IN
the filing of a suit to test the constitu-
tionality of every apportionment law that
has been passed since the adoption of The
present State constitution in 1871. The
object of the suit is to restrain all the
sherilfs, auditors AMI clerks in the ninety
two counties in Indiana from issuing GER
tficates for holding the election for Sen
ators and Representatives this fall, and
thus either compel the Governor to call a
special session of the Legislature or pro-
uuce Sucn Cuaoilc cOlidlllonS lndt none Ol
these officers can be elected and the State
will be without lawmaking body. The
grounds of the attack are practically the
same as those selected in former suits OF
the same character. The complaint sets
out the objections to the acts complained
of in the order in which they were passed
by the Legislature. and seeks to show that
the Legislature in no case adhered To the
unit basis of population as provided in
the constitution and decided as necessary
Ia constitutional act by the Supreme
Court Instances are pointed out where
counties with 1000 voting population got
but one Senator. while districts were made
of two or more counties i'm which the voting
population was 10000 or more, and yet
these got but one Senator. Similar con-
ditionS regarding representatives are also
pointed out and the contention is made
that none of these laws conform to the
constitutional provision. A conference of
Democrats will be held To consider the sit
uation and adopt some plan of action.
Thomas Neenan. of South Bend. aged
10, babe his friends good-by and got six OF
them to promise To serve as pall-bearers.
They all supposed he was making his
funeral arrangements IN sport. He then
went home. drank dose of carbolic acid
and died.
AlonZo Rocker, who has been on trial
for four weeks for the murder of his wife
last September. was acquitted at Indian
apolis after the jury had been out forty
eight hours. He is released on the
grounds of insanity. The crime was one
of the most bloody in the history of th>
city,