Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-05-13
MISCELLANY OUS.

New Yorl-Waiter Weliman has
started on another expedition in an
endeavor to reach the north pole. He
hopes also to determine the fate of
Andree, who has not been heard from
since two days after he stepped into
his balloon
Madison. Wis.-The state board of
Surance Oh the state property in its
charge.
Beliot, Wis.-The judges in the in
terstate college oratorical contest
awarded first place TO William Gorsuch
of Knox college: second to J. A. Bar
nett of Wooster university: third to
I. ". Nadal Of De Paw university
Trenton, y. General Robert F.
Stockton, president of the United
New Jersey railroad and canals com
pany and state comptroller of New
Jersey from 1877 to 1880, died at his
home in this city.
st. LOuis-The first annual conven-
ton of the National Hardwood Lum-
Der association met here. All the great
lumber markets of the middle west
and some eastern cities were repre-
sented.
Terre Haute Ind-The colonization
commission of the Social Democracy
announced the report that the first
colony would be established in Kan
sas was erroneous. The first colon
les will be in Tennessee. Washington
and Colorado and in Idaho and Kan
sas later on
BuenOs Ayres-The United States
dynamite cruiser Nictheroy has sail
ed nOrthward.
Ottawa, KAN. d. Bowersock of
Lawrence was nominated by the sec
ond district republican congressional
convention on the 335th ballot.
Cleveland, Ohio-The wrestling
match here. best two in three. be
tween Tom Jenkins and Yousouf. the
Turk. was won by the latter after
game contest
Baltimore. Md.-As a result of
mimic battle between the United
States and Spain by American and
Polish boys from Y to 1G years Of age
in Canton a day or two ago, John
keprOfsky is dead and eleven young
sters are locked up on the charge of
causing his death.
Ann Arbor. Mich-Judge Elishu B.
Pond ex-warden of the state prison.
is dead.
Muncie, Ind.-The Indiana Dental
association closed it's tenth annual
meeting after selecting Marion as it's
next place of meeting. DR.. N. w.
Hiatt. Marion, is president.
San Francis 90 Cal-Edna Wallace
Hopper was granted a divorce from
her husband. De Wolf Hopper
Milwaukee, Wis.-The State Medical
society met at the Plankinton house.
Muncie. Ind.-The annual meeting OF
the Indiana Dental association met
here
Dubuque, lathe Sisters of Mercy
of this city are to establish a home
for the aged at Asbury.
Tacoma. Wash.-The American bark
Forest Queen. Capt. Beasley has been
given up as lost.
book dealers. have assigned to JIG. Dol
man. Assets, $4,000; liabilities, $4,000
Cincinnati O.-Cincinnati brewers
have added 81 a barrel to the price
of beer in anticipation of a government
revenue tax.
Cincinnati, O.-The Mccormick Har-
vester company was given judgment in
Oh f,.i, of
patent.
Louisville, Ky.-The twenty-fourth
kentucky Derby was won by ]. T. Mad
den's brown colt Plaudit.
New Orleans, LATHE crevasse wa
ter from the break in the Huling settle
ment, fifty miles below here. flooded al.
the back lands in Grand Prairie, and
causing heavy loss to all crops.
Aurora. lll.-For the eighth consecrl-
tive time the republicans of the eighth
congressional district of Illinois NOM
mated Albert J. Hopkins of Aurora. Tor
congress.
Cairo, ll.-Rcpresentative William
Q. MCGEE died at his home here of lung
trouble after brief illness.
iOpeha, haH.- ne Tree silver repuD-
lican state committee issued a call for
the state convention to nominate
state ticket. for June IL.
Cambridge. Mass.-At one of the
largest mass meetings ever held az
Cambridge il was voted TO send stand
of cOlors to the cruiser Harvard form
erly the american line steamer New
York.
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