Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-09-23
MISCELLANE OUS.

Washington-Up TO this time the
amount of the new bonds issued is
SIPS $50, $40. OF this amount $40. ,175,-
SIS has been shipped to subscribers,
| S12 ,061 260 has been deposited 10 Sc
cure circulating national bank notes
and So 500. 500 TO secure public de-
posits.
| st. Louis. Mo.-An order has been re-
ceived by the st. Louis Car company
for $50 street cars for the Japanese gov
eminent.
Mobile. Ala.-The British bark Butte
shire was totally wrecked on the south
coast of Grandeur island. Capt. Cur
It's and crew were saved.
Eugene, Ore.-Prof j. w. Johnson,
| former president for seventeen years
of the Oregon State university. is dead.
New York-There has been q marked
advance in ocean freight rates in the
srain-carrying trade since Sept. l and
shipping men are looking forward to
season of prosperity
! New YOrk-President Gilman Che
ney of the Canadian Express company
/ is dead at Montreal at the age of 76.
| He was a Pacific coast forty-niner.
Baltimore. Md.-The well-known
novelist and magazine writer, Col.
Richard Malcolm Johnston, is dying at
the city hospital.
Jackson, Miss.-Four new cases of
yellow fever were reported to the board
of health from Orwood and five from
Taylor Station.
hington-Secretary Long denies
that the president has offered him the
position of ambassador to london as
successor to Col. Hay.
Salt Lake City, Utah-1'he pOpulist
state convention nominated Warren
Foster for congress and J. NJ. Bowman
for supreme judge. The platform is the
usual party declaration.
New York-Richard Busted. once a
noted lawyer and politician, is dead in
this city.
Kansas City, Mo.-The National Col
cred Baptist association decided to en-
ter the missionary field in Cuba i'm
mediately.
Marion, Ind.-C. F. Springer. repre-
company, is in Marion for the purpose
of locating a steel plant which will
cost 100000 and will employ 600 men.
Mount Vernon, Ill.-The corner stone
Of the Cumberland Presbyterian church
here was laid This church was or
ganized three years ago.
Montreal, Que-Paper and pulp man
ufacturers. by resolution. ask that an
export duty be Immediately placed on
all pulp wood exported from Canada.
Columbus. Cd. Gruen, president OF
the Columbus Watch Manufacturing
Company. filed a petition in bankrupt
cy in the federal court. The company
Is in the hands Of exNayor P. H.
Bruck as receiver
New York-An attendant of the
criminal court of Jersey City pushed
open the door of Franz Muller's room
in the Hotel Washington, Hoboken, to
summon Muller to appear in court. and
found Muller dead in bed. Suicide is
suspected.
San Francisco, Gait has been
learned that Mrs. Hattie Trundle. one
OF the beneficiaries under the terms or
the late Adolph Sutro's will to the
amount of $4,000. died near Washing
ton about two years ago.
Washington, Ind-One hundred men
in the car and machine department of
the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
railway shops were laid off indefinitely
Cincinnati, O.-At the session of the
Laundrymen's International associa-
ton the time for the annual meetings
was changed to the second week in
October. st. Louis was selected as the
place for the meeting next year.
Cleveland, Ohio-At the session OF
the annual convention of the Order of
United American Mechanics |. G. Bow
yer, Wheeling, w. Va, was elected ma
tiOnal counselor.