Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-09-23
THE NEWS OF INDIANA,
Minor Happenings of the Past Week-Events in Hooserdom
TerSely Told in TeleeramS
An Opera Company Stranded.

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Opera Company is stranded here, the
wigs and tights and other parapher-
MALTA OF the organization being held by
hard-hearted landlords for unsatisfied
board bills The effects of sixteen mem
bers Of the company are held by the
proprietOrs of the Oyster Bay. while
the Spencer House holds the trunks of
the prima donna and the members of
the cast. The company was to have
appeared at Hartford City last evening,
but was unable to get its machinery
away. The company played here Mon
day night, presenting the Bohemian
Girl They were TO have given Mar
tina" on Tuesday evening. but Manager
Zimmerman. of the Grand, Cancelled the
date on account of the yellow quality
OF the first nights performance.
VIII Establish a College.
Wabash. Ind.-The Progressive Men
monte church has decided to establish
a college similar TO that of the Ger
man Baptist Dunkards at North Man
chester, this county. At the district
conference at Bloomington, ILL.,, a COM
mittee, which included the Rev. Mr..
Baer of Berne and the Rev w. w.
Miller of Goshen, was appointed to
choose a site. The committee has de-
cided that the college shall be founded
in northern Indiana, and is now trav
cling over this vicinity, securing propo-
SitionS and examining locations Of
fered. It is stated that the selection
has simmered down to one of three
points, and report will be made to the
conference. which meets in Blooming
ton, Sept 1929, when the decision will
be finally made.
Escaped from Nashville Jail.
Rushville, Ind.-Albert Clifton, col
Ored, of Cincinnati, held for rObbing
residences; Harry Wright, of Indianap-
oils, who robbed the railway depot at
Carthage; Garfield Innis, colored, an
alleged burglar, and David Bright, OF
MetamOra. an alleged bicycle thief,
escaped from jail last evening while
Sheriff Price was absent The escape
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but the prisoners had d good lead be-
fore a posse started in pursuit All of
them are said to have bad records. 1t
is believed that they were furnished
with skeleton keys by friends on the
outside, and unlocked their way to
liberty. The sheriff has offered 800 re-
ward for their re-capture and return.
An Indictment for Murder.
Bedford Ind.-ISaac Snow, who shot
and killed William Mozart. a neighbor,
on the 18th of August, and was arrested
in Floyd county, has beer indicted for
murder, and he will be arraigned for
trial next week. Ever since his arrest
he has been detained in the New AL
bany Jail. owing to threats of violence
by McCart's friends. While Snow has
claimed to have acted in self-defense,
it is said he will enter a plea of guilty,
in order to save his neck. The men
were neighbors. and there had been
feud between them for several years.
The killing occurred while they were
returning home, after trial of case
in which both were interested, in this
city.
The Fear OF a Ghost.
Flora. Ind.-The Walnut Grove dis
irict school. two miles from this place,
has been abandoned, the result of a
lynching which occurred on the school
grounds several years ago. Eleven
l<e-
perado, was taken from the Jail at Del
phi by mob and hanged to walnut
tree in the Walnut Grove school yard.
This fact preyed on the minds of the
pupils to such an extent that a sudden
decrease in the attendance was notice
able, and the decrease continued until
last winter. when only five children
could be prevailed on to attend the
school, about fifty others having been
transferred to other districts.
william Reed on Bond.
Shelbyville, Ind.-The preliminary
trial of William Reed. charged with
numbering Samuel Barker, of Boards
town. H., near this city. Friday after
uOOI. W do tdllCu DCiOlt OuullC ioihoo
Kenton. The defense summoned no
witnesses. and, rather than show his
hand, State Prosecutor Blair permitted
Reed to go on bond. which was fixed
at $4,000. The county coroner cOntin-
ues to take evidence. The bond of
Thomas Cuskaden has been raised from
81 900 to $500 1t is probable that
nothing more will be heard of the case
until the grand jury convenes. which
will be the first Monday in October
Mrs. Lease II Spirituali.t.
Anderson, Ind. A. WertZ, direc
tor. announces tonight that the Indiana
Association of Spiritualists has closed
a contract with Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease,
the Kansas suffragist, to appear at the
Indiana meeting as lecturer for spir-
itualism 1t is claimed she is a late
convert and has decided to lend it, what
assistance she is capable Of by taking
the platform. This is her initial en-
gagement. Spiritralists announce her
conversion with delight. and she will
at once he given a Mace as one of the