Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-01-21
MISCELLANE OUS,

New York-Sergeant Fredericks of
the Greedy arctic expedition ridicules
many of the statements of Prof. Nan
sen as preposterous.
Madison, Wis.-Friends of Judge G.
w. Burnell are urging his appoint
ment to the Wisconsin Supreme bench
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Justice Newman.
Washington = Representative Graft
of Illinois has invited the President to
stop over at Peoria when he goes west
this year. The President will take the
matter under consideration.
Milan, MOI. w. Huffaker, presi-
dent, and j. B. Ford, cashier Of the
Brookfield Bank, were arrested on an
indictment charging them with receiv-
ing deposits when the bank was known
to be in failing condition.
New York-Charles H. Ebbetts has
been elected president of the Brooklyn
base ball club to succeed Charles H.
Byrne, deceased.
Indianapolis, Ind.-The Flint Bottle
Manufacturers Association, it is said,
has decided to increase the price of
their product about 10 per cent
Colorado Springs, ColO.-F'red Hills,
a mining engineer of this city, has a
machine called emancipatOr-arra
which. he says, will treat at profit
gold ore of 81 ton value. Thomas
A. Edison's latest proposition is to
make it possible to successfully treat
ore as low as S1.25 a ton.
San Francisco-Edwin T. Earle Of
the Earl Fruit Gem pany has brought
suit in the United States Circuit Court
against the Armour Packing Company
OF Chicago to recover 100000 dam
ages for an alleged violation of the
plaintiffs patent on a refrigerator car
and improvements.
Sturgis, Mich.-Mrs NJ. A. Littlefield
died of paralysis, aged 50 years.
Jackson, Mich.-Mrs. Morette, aged
1Ol years, died at the county-house.
Decatur, Ill.-Susan II. Abel, dealer
in carpets and wall. paper, failed for
Si0,50O.
Rock Island, Ill.-The Variety wood
works have assigned, with liabilities
at $4,000 and assets $4,000
La Crosse, visa letter filled with
cartridges exploded while being stamp
ed in the postoffice. No one was in
jured.
Fort Wayne, Ind.-Henry W. Bond,
proprietor OF the Bond cereal mills,
has made an assignment, the failure
involving about $4,000.
Vincennes, Ind.-John Mundy, a pris-
oner in the Knox county Jail, awaiting
trial for murder, has diphtheria. The
prison is strictly quarantined and no
prisoners are admitted and none can
be released
Anderson, Ind-A suit for $4,000
damages against the Knights OF
Pythias has been filed by Professor
Charles Nelson who was expelled from
the Oxford, O., lodge on the alleged
ground of violating and divulging OBJ
legations.
Plainfield, VISA northeastern
snOwstorm swept over Central Wiseon-
sin Jan. II.
Independence, Iowa-Diphtheria has
broken out in the hospital for the in
sane.
Mound City, Kas.-Mrs. Susan 3.
Wattles, one of the oldest settlers of
the state, is dead.
Shelbyyille, Ind.-William II. Greed
died of blood poisoning from a scratch
of his finger nail.
Rockford, HID. W. Worcester, who
came to this country in 1S49, died at his
home in Roscoe. aged 76 years.
Burlington, Iowa-James England Is
dead and his wife is fatally sick as
the result of breathing fumes from a
stove.
Virginia, Ill-Miss Anna Hinchcliff,
aged 20, Of Beardstown, H., was adj
judged insane and was conveyed to the
asylum at Jacksonville.
Anderson, Ind.-The Wright Shovel
company started a carload of shovels
to Hong Kong, to be used in govern
ment work
Paris-Mlle. Marie Louise Ney,
grandniece of the celebrated Marshal
Ney of the first Napoleonic empire,
was found asphyxiated at her resi-
dence.
Washington.-Com Martin
A. Knapp was elected chairman of
the interstate commerce commission.
to succeed Colonel w. r. Morrison,
whose term OF Office expired Dec. 81
last.