Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-11
LATEST INDIANA NEWS.
Glass Workers Are to Fight.

Anderson, Ind.-It has been decided
to institute legal proceedings to pre-
vent the window glass companies Of
Indiana joining the proposed combine
now being organized under the laws
of New Jersey. Advantage will be
taken of an old section of the statute
which provides that in case any cor
poration shall depart from the pur-
poses for which it was organized its
charter may be forfeited and the con-
Germ placed in the hands of a receiver.
The statute empowers the prosecuting
attorney TO bring suit. The glass COM
panies in this county which are made
defendants in the proceedings are the
Union, Victor and Anderson glass
works of Anderson. the Pendleton and
Indiana glass companies of PendletOn.
the Clyde Of FranktOn and the ElwOOd
Glass company. If the courts hold this
section of the statute to be effective
there will be no need of any further
legislation against trusts in Indiana.
Nellie Berger still Missing.
LOgansport, Ind.-D. NJ. WhitcOmb
and F. J. Blackburn, two residents OF
Miami county and neighbOrs of the
Berger family. arrived here this morn
ing on the trail of the man Jones. who
is supposed to have taken Nellie Ber
ger away. No clew to their whereabouts
has yet been found, although Jones
was traced into this county The Ber
ger family is worth $50 1000, according
to the assessment sheet of Miami
county. and the reward now reaches
nearly $1,000. Pinkerton men have
been detailed on the case. The men
! who were here this morning believe
that Nellie Berger is held near Bloom
ingsburg for ransom and that nego-
tiations will shortly be made for her
return.
Indiana Briefs.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Butte, Flora
Bowers, granddaughter, and Freder-
lex Martin of Elkhart, while at the
home of Mr.. Butte. at Wabash, were
alarmingly Frustrated after eating
apple-butter, purchased of a farmer,
and which is supposed to have been
boiled in copper kettle.
A young stranger applied for shel-
ter at Auburn, and finding an old tin
cup in the city prison, he tore it to
pieces and cut his throat with jagged
end. and was nearly dead from loss OF
blood when discovered. Physicians
sewed up his injuries, but he afterward
tore the stitches out with his fingers
and died. His identity remains UNI
known.
The citizens of Lagro, the Oldest
town in Wabash county. have petit
| toned the town council TO order a
special election. looking to the sur
render CT the town charter Lagro
flourished in the early days of the
Wabash and Erie canal, but is now
retrograding.
Mrs. Emma Evans. widow. daughter
of Mr. and Mrs William Thomas of
| Ekhart, and Fred Decide of Chicago
have been married MIR. Decide served
at Santiago. and was sent to Chicago
hospital. where he became acquainted
with his bride. who was then nurse
The validity CT the recent marriages
of William T. Burton and Miss Lulu
Franklin of Muncie. at Hartford City
will be contested. it is said. by Miss
Burton No. l. who, with her two chill
dren is living with her parents at New
Philadelphia, Ohio.
twenty-five hundred people attended
the Old Settlers reunion of Blackford
Jay. Randolph and Delaware counties
at Wilson's Grove. near Dunkirk. Sat
urday last. Samuel Peck. 81 years old
of BlackfCrd county, was the Oldest
person present.
The Indiana Mining institute, in ses-
sion at Terre Haute. elected W. Nc
Marrow of Brazil. president; William
Spears Of Brazil vice president; G. 5
Patterson of Terre Haute, secretary
and A. d. Scott OF Star City, treasurer
During the past week 100000 quarts
Of blackberries were daily shipped
from Honeycreek township, Howard
county. Owing to low prices, many
of the patch owners are converting
their berries into wine.
C. w. Biddle of Philadelphia. Pa.
head of the great Biddle hardware con-
Germ. is said to be negotiating deal
for the independent wire-nail plant at
Anderson, preliminary 10 forming an
antitrust combination.
Charles Jossick, employed in the
clerical department of the Lake Shore
railway offices at Mishawa, while at
tempting TO pass between two freight
cars, was caught by the bumpers and
crushed to death.
Richard Cotterill of Anderson and
Clarence Garvey of Cincinnati re-
turned to Anderson Saturday evening
after years in the Klondike Garvey
made a rich find, but Cotterill accu-
INFLATED nothing.
Joseph Wyler, 10 years old, of FIT
Wayne, ate freely of watermelon and
then went bathing in the ST. Joe river
AS soon as he struck the water he was
seized with cramps and sank from
view.
Earl Love of Paramount, while en-
route homeward after nightfall, was
sand-bagged and robbed of $12. He is
not likely to recover from his injury.
While thrashing oats on the William