Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

Topeka, Kan.-EloQuent commenda-
ton of the policies of President Nc
Kinley was the feature of an address
delivered by Postmaster General
Smith.
Denver, Colo.-The taking of testi-
money in thhe Mcintyre court-martia!
has ended.
Concord, Mass-Sherman Hoar, eX-
congressman and United States dis
trict attorney, died here of typhoid
fever contracted while visiting Mas
sachusetts soldiers ir southern camps.
New YOrk-Bank Examiner Kimball
has reported to Comptroller Dawes
that depOsitOrs in the Tradesmen'S
National bank, which recently sus-
pended, will probably be paid in full.
Topeka, Kan.-The Kansas agricus-
tural bureau has reports from many
sections of the state that rain is badly
needed. In many localities the ground
is too dry to pillow for the new wheat
crop, and in the great wheat belt farm
ers have been so busy thrashing this
years crop that they have not had
time to pillow and seed new crops.
Camp Wikoff-The government has
decided to make Camp Wikoff a winter
hospital camp, and will at once begin
the erection of the largest and best
equipped hospital in the world,
New York.-Wearied by the vanity
of society, Thomas Heffernan, a we'll
known athlete and social favorite il
New York and Brooklyn. has renounc-
ed the world and entered the Society
OF Christian Brothers, an organization
devoted to teaching.
Laporte, Ind.-The Illinois Associa-
ton of the New Church. which en-
braces number of charges in north
ern Indiana, held a session here.
Frankfort. Ky.-The Court of APP
peals rendered a decision sustaining
the law passed in 1891, which com
pels all railroad companies to provide
separate coaches for white and colored
passengers, with equal accommoda-
tions.
New York-Chief Engineer w. H.
Cline, U. S. N, retired, is dead in this
city. He had just submitted to an
operation for cancer of the tongue.
Atlanta, Ga.-Citizens have voted
for municipal ownership of the cleo
trio plant.
Baltimore, Md.-The Baltimore and
Ohio receivers answer to the petition
of stockholders TO prevent foreclosure
was filed. The receivers say fixed
charges are so high that they will
never be able to pay the debts of the
road
Milburn, n J.-Andrew Brown has
filed petition in bankruptcy. He
owes $S41 ,S5S, mostly TO banks and III
iividuals. and claims assets amount
ing to $271000-a claim for damages
against the Bank of Commerce of Buff
falO
Richmond. Va.-The Grand Camp of
Confederate Veterans adopted a reso-
luton to the effect that there could be
no successor to Miss Winnie Davis as
the daughter of the confederacy," the
title having expired with her death.
Washington-Capt. C. F. Shoemaker,
chief of the revenue cutter service,
has been instructed by the secretary or
the treasury to proceed to Cuba and
Porto Rico and make a thorough ex-
animation into existing conditions,
with a view TO the establishment of an
efficient revenue cutter patrol of the
waters of those islands.
New YOrk-After an existence of
three years the hoop iron combination
has been dissolved
New York-Floods in the MOoSic
valley did thousands of dollars of dam
age
Shington-Senator Kyle has sent
out notice calling a meeting of the
industrial commission to be held Oct
H.