Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-31
NEWS TOLD in PARAGRAPHS.
Minor Happenings Of the Past
Week.
EVENTS OF LAST SEVEN DAYS.
Political, Religious, Social aud Criminal
Doings of the Whole World Carefully
Condensed for Our Readers-The Ac-
cident Record.


died suddenly of paralysis, aged 81.
Greensboro, N. C.-Sonly Ryan, who
murdered his wife, was hanged.
Milwaukee, Wis.-Oscar Froehlich
committed suicide by taking carbolic
acid.
Bloomington, Ill.-John Nelson, a
| driver, was instantly killed by falling
from a trestle.
Louisville, Ill.-Charles, 6-year-old
son of Elias Erwin, was fatally injured
with firecrackers.
keokuk, Iowa.-Ephraim Radasch
stood before a mirror and fired one
shot, causing instant death.
| Tiffiny, Mo.-Two little children of
farmer were set upon by number of
hogs, which killed and ate them
| Brazil, Ind.-John Smith, an oil ped
dler, shot and wounded Harry Joseph,
proprietor OF the Central Oil and Tank
line.
Joliet, Ill.-Romaine Kolath was
killed at the Illinois Steel Works by
the falling of a cupola in the convert
ing mill.
Des Moines, Iowa.-The BARRIERS of
the state ask cooperation in the effort
to secure the regulation of their Dusi-
ness by law.
Cleveland, Ohio.-W. w. Andrews, an
attorney, was found dead in his chair
in his office. He had been afflicted
with heart disease
Tiffin, Ohio.-A boiler explosion near
Helena fatally injured Henry Kneas-
ter, George Robbins and Phil Good
rich. Robbins is dead
Coshocton, Ohio.-Judge julius c..
POmerene, of the Fifth judicial circuit
of Ohio, was stricken with paralysis,
death resulting shortly afterward.
Milwaukee, Wis.-1 nomas P. Collin
bourne, one of the pioneers of this
city, is dead. He was ~ years of age,
and came here in 1874.
Buffalo, n. Y.-James A. Nolan,
lawyer of Topeka, Kan, who escaped
from the Kansas state insane asylum
about two months ago, was arrested
here.
Philadelphia, Pa.-John ]. Burns,
in default of $4,000 bail for trial on
charge of perjury, committed suicide
by hanging.
Oakland, GAIA criminal case in
which the defendant, the complain
ant, one of the attorneys and nearly all
of the witnesses are deaf mutes, is on
trial before Police Judge Allen. James
H. 3 80
Maggie Halloran. Rodan Grady, who
can neither hear nor speak, is associ-
ated with ii. s. Aldrich in the defense.
La Crosse, Wis.-M NJ Manville was
examined as to his sanity by Drs.
George II. Powell and II. G.. Miller,
and was found insane, and committed
by 1Idge Dyson.
Anderson, Ind.-While moving an
old house at Huntsville. workmen came
upon a long box containing the skele-
ton of man with a bullet hole
through his skull.
Racine, visa train struck a sleigh
containing Peter Anderson, a farmer,
and his 17-year- old son, near Franks
vile. Anderson was instantly killed
|
Denver, Col-Formal steps were
taken by the Incorporation of The
Abraham Lincoln Memorial assoca-
tion for the establishment of monu-
ment on the summit of Mount Lookout
in the Arkansas valley
Burlington, N. 1.-THE Masonic
grand lodge of New Jersey has pur-
chased a magnificent property in this
county for state home, not only for
masons, but for masons' widows and
orphans as well. 1t will cost $50. OOG.
st. Louis, MCMILLAN E. Burr. Jr.,
ex-cashier of the st. Louis national
bank, under a sentence of five years at
the Jefferson City state penitentiary
: for the embezzlement of $4,000. has
ley
KokOmo. Ind.-Lewis Caldwell. the
absconding superintendent of the Cen
trail Union Telephone company, was
/, captured at Memphis, Tenn, by the
company's travelling auditor. s. T..
Fisher of Chicago, after a chase Of
5000 miles.
vi.
r Houston. who was tried and convicted
! of heresy, appeared before the Louis
, vile presbytery and declined to re-
, ceive the censure that had been pre-
, pared for him, saying that before he
would give up his beliefs he would give
: up his calling.
> Moline, Ill.-John Grady and Jake"
I Golden were arrested and taken to
Peoria, charged with violating the in
: ternal revenue law.
Dubuque. Iowa-Arthur Jacobs, con-
r victed of counterfeiting, was put un-
| der a suspended sentence to two years
in the Anamosa penitentiary.
: Lima, Ohio-John Strawman, a Sene-
l ca county farmer, threw a cartridge
into the fire. 1t went off, filling Mrs.
8 Strawman's breast with shot and caus-
a ing her death. Strawman's right
!. hand was blown off by the explosion
q of the percussion cap as he was taking