Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-06-10
From Saturdays Daily.

I1au restaurant.
There was a run down on the bank
of Wabash yesterday.
To introduce 1t, riding pillow at a low
figure. F. a Forbes. ct
The county jail is now empty and
Sheriff Marshall is happy.
Plymouth people get the best at
IIads restaurant, Argos.
The school teachers are arranging
matters for their summer vacation.
When you go to Argos stop at Had's
restaurant. He will use you right.
The prison directors paroled four
convicts yesterday from the Michigan
City penitentiary.
Spanish bravery is like that of a rat:
he fights hard when driven into a cor.
ner because there is nothing else to do.
The outing season is here and num-
Der of the county officials will soon be
found down on the banks of the lakes
trying their luck with hook and line.
If the war causes even half of the
money that has gone to foreign coun-
tries to be spent for American goods it
will be source of profit to the coun-
try.
Up-to-date Edwin Mayer has pur-
chased 10000 pounds of wool. it was
not ali purchased in Marshall county,
but it shows that Edwin has been wide
awake and captured the cream.
Wilfred Erwin, of Bourbon, was fined
this morning $3.50 cents for cruelty to
animals by Justive Reeves. The fine
was paid. This is what is considered
fair fine under all conditions.
Indiana appears to be pretty we'll rep
resented in the navy. Nothing has
happened from the blowing up of the
Maine to the battle at Manila without
the old Hoosier state being honorably
In it.
Opposition in the annexation of Ia
wall is now opposition to the proper
conduct of the war against Spain by
the government, and there is another
very ugly name for that sort of thing
treason.
Three teachers who taught school in
Walnut township twenty-five years ago,
met yesterday for the first time in
twenty five years Their names are
James Miller, Lou Marshnian and DIR.
Wiseman.
The Plymouth ball team as it is now
arranged is thought to be one of the
best clubs in northern Indiana. Our
people have great confidence in the
'Maroons' and the efforts now being
put forth by Manager Thompson to
keep the Maroons OIL top, is commend
able.
This has been one of the days in
which the wool buyers of Plymouth
had an opportunity to show their sand.
Hundreds of pounds of wool were
brought TO town today and the top price
was paid owing to the strong competi-
ton. Wool sold on the streets today
for 81 cents.
1t is clearly apparent that Commo-
dore Schley is very busy man. The
dispatches still continue the qualifying
clause "that while the navy dapart-
ment has received no official report
from Commodore Schley," etc. In the
meantime Schley probably knows pretty
accurately from time to time what he
is about.
The yellow journals are having some
difficulty in explaining just how they
came to give so circumstantial an &C.
count of the capture" of the Alphonso
NH by the st Paul. The officers of
the st. Paul in giving an account of
themselves have no knowledge of their
important prize. The yellow journals
are in hard lines these days.
The Soldiers Aid Society of Laporte
is making mending bags for the SO dier
boys. Each bag will be complete with
needles, pins, buttons, thread, court
plaster and numerous essentials to
camp life. The whole apparatus is en-
cased in neat oil cloth roll and oc-
cupies very small space. Each bag
will contain material for dressing
very small wound
The body of Henry Slater was washed
up on the beach near New Buffalo at
noon Monday. Slater was a fisherman
and he lost his life off the harbor at
Michigan City. The boat in which he
and man named Lind had taken pas
sage was capsized in fierce storm, and |