Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-08
General State News.


Union City. on Saturday. with Her
bert Williams in charge, after rising
800 feet made a swift descent. and
Williams would have been killed but
the parachute caught on the telegraph
wires and he hung suspended until he
could be rescued.
Two hundred descendants of Thomas
Malone Watkins held a reunion re-
Gently in the KOkOmo City park
Charles H. WOcOtt of Muncie was
elected president; Elmer L. Smith Of
Horace. H.. vice president. and L. f.
Watkins of KOkomo, secretary
Graham Earle manager of the Len
non Dramatic Club Company. and Mrs
J. l.. Cline. whose husband is pastor of
the United Brethren church at Deca-
tur. have been reunited after a separa-
ton of twenty years. They are broth
er and sister.
The Fairmount academy. one Of the
largest coeducatiOnal institutions con-
trolled by the Friends in the state. at
the september meeting of the Marion.
Wabash and Fairmount quarterly
meetings. will be placed under control
of trustees
George Thompson. Of Bartholomew
county, who disappeared from home
fifteen years ago. without explanation.
leaving his wife and children in pos
session of the farm. has returned He
has spent the interval in the Indian
Territory.
Judge Alfred Ellison and other skep-
ties of Anderson have raised a purse
Of $500 cash. TO be presented 10 any
medium at the state Spiritualists
camp who will give a satisfactory
demonstration that spirits return after
DEATH
Lee Pogue employed as lineman by
the FairmOunt electric light plant
avoided arrest by constable on some
petty charge by climbing pole. where
he remained until he wore out the pa
thence of the officer. who walked away.
\ severe storm swept over Evans
vile last Saturday evening. accompa
MED by much wind and hail Light
ming struck several exposed points
Many shade trees were blown down
and birds were killed by the hail
The COnrey Birely Table company OF
Shelbyville has increased its capital
stock to $500 000 of which 5000. GOO will
be preferred stock. The preferred stock
only will be sold. I per cent interest
being guaranteed.
c. NJ. KesterSOn of OwenSvilie. who
enlisted in the engineers corps and
served in Cuba. contracted fever
which terminated fatally on Saturday
.ast. at his old home.
Peter Pinter. 81 years old. of Crown
Point. committed suicide recently
while stopping with his son in Chicago
He felt that he was an incum brance.
and used a rope.
Mrs. Amos Grippe wife of a farmer
near Middlebury. who is only 80 years
old. is the mother of nine children.
eight Of the nine being twins.
Mrs Anna Rank of Washington
township Allen county. Will celebrate
her ninety-ninth birthday, at which
time there will be Il reunion of five
generations.
The Terre Haute car works are re-
ported as gradually decreasing the
number of workmen. and the employees
fear that the trust will soon shut down
Indefinitely.
The little son OF James Gady Of
Redkey swallowed a horseshoe nail.
with which he was playing. the nail
lodging in his windpipe and causing
death
Mrs. Charles Moriarity of Cincin-
natl while visiting Mrs. Ed r. Hunt Of
Rising Sun, killed blacksnake seven
feet long
George w. hewitt. eX-police chief of
Evansville. is dead. He was 80 years
old. and of later years engaged as a
florist
William Cassidy. coal miner, was
found dead on the railway track near
Coal Bluff, having been struck by a
train.
A new Cath caurch was dedicat tied
at New Harl ~. under the direction
OF the Rev. f. her Schaaf.