Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-06-17


votes are counted this fall in old
Marshall.
The Canadian government has just
issued q postal card, on one end of
which, on the address side, is the Brit
ish flag, crossed with the stars and
stripes. Above the flags is 4 map of
the western hemisphere, and below
Britannia and Columbia sitting ami
cably side by side. with the eagle at
their feet.
1t is becoming apparent that Spain is
getting enough. The people of that
unhappy nation are finding out things
about the course of the war against
them, and are no longer deceived by
the lying reports with which they were
at first deluded. They recognize the
hopeiessness of their cause, and are
ready to sue for peace.
Johnas Hoover, the Elkhart attorney
who figured as defendant in a disbar-
meDt case, was numerically whipped
by grocery merchant in that city yes
terday. The crowd looked on and en-
couraged the merchant to finish the
lawyer. When the fight was over
money was freely contributed to pay
the fine of the victorious pugilist
Hoover certainly has hard row to hoe
in Elkhart.
The latest is that Joe Letters little
venture as wheat king cost him a
round five-million dollars. But then he
has the consolation of knowing that he
added CD about hundred million of
dollars to the income of the American
farmers the minds of certain news
papers AS benefactor, Letter may
have been success; but it was trifle
hard on Letter. Experience is good
teacher but the tuition is high.
The mighty Letter has fallen. His
holdings are to be turned over to a
board of trustees, to settle up his deal
in wheat as best they can. The elder
Letter refuses to advance any more
money to the son and the plunger can
not meet margins The downfall of
young Napoleon of the wheat pit comes
as surprise, at time when the public
was specializing on his profits, when he
was regarded on the safe side of the
market.
Two Grant county faith-curlsts have
been held TO the grand jury, which will
investigate charge of manslaughter
against them. They attempted to
make prayer answer the purpose of Oh
stetric assistance and young wife and
mother died as a result. This species
of crankism seems to have taken on a
rather dangerous form in Eastern
Howard and Western Grant counties,
and it is hoped that such action will
be had as to put stop to it.
Kokomo places peculiar value on
dogs. A dog bit little child in that
vicinity recently and the father of tie
child very properly killed the dog. The
slayer of the dog was fined $50 and
made pay the dogs owner so damages. |
Such judgment as this may be accord
ing to law, but there is very little sense
connected with it. 1t would have been
more in keeping with the eternal fitness
of things to have fined the owner of the |
vicious dog and given the slayer a
chrome,
After many delays General Shaftner's |
army which has been stationed at |
Tampa has departed for Cuba. The
18th regiment to which company NJ,
of this city, is attached, did not sail
with General Shaftner but are still at !
Tampa. 1t is now said that the 18th |
will remain at Tampa for several
weeks, but there is no doubt but what
the boys from Plymouth will yet see
Cuba. The very latest reports from
Tampa are to the effect that the boys
are healthy and happy.