Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-23
MINOR EVENTS Of THE WEEK
News of General Interest Told in
Paragraphs.
COMPLETE NEWS SUMMAR
Record of Happenings of Much or Little
Importance from All Parts of the
Civilized World-Prices of Farm Pro-
duce in Western Markets.


Philadelphia, Pa.-The four-story
building of the Thoenix Paint and
Brush company was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $4,000.
New Orleans, La.-William H.
Fischer. a builder and contractor, shot
his wife after brutality beating her.
and then fatally wounded himself.
Greensboro. y. C.-The Benbow
house was burned The loss TO B. G.
Fisher, proprietor OF the hotel, is
100000, with no insurance.
Columbus. Ohio-At the meeting of
the republican state central committee
Col. Charles Dick OF Akron was select
ed to manage the republican campaign
IN Ohio.
Mansfield. Ohio-Ex- Secretary John
Sherman is suffering from a recurrence
of the lung trouble with which he was
afflicted while on a trip to the West
Indies.
Port Clinton. Ohio-Johnson's ISL
land. Lake Erie. which was famous as
a prison for rebel soldiers during the
civil war, ha. been sold at auction for
$4,000
Galveston. Texas While party
were in bathing a; The foot of Broad
way. Eta Thorn. aged IA; Marian
Howard. is. and Irene Lauderdale, IS,
were drowned.
San Rafael. Cal.-By an explosion at
DOUdor
company's factor. Edward Secumbe.
John Secumbe, James Morrissey and
VI. Hollenbeck were killed
Boston. MaSs.-The one hundred and
twenty-Ihird anniversary of the bat
tie OF Bunker Hill was celebrated with
parades. banquets. reunions of pa
triotic societies and general festivities.
SedaIia Mod J. Stubblefield.
charged with the attempted robbery of
a Missouri Pacific express train. was
found guilty and his punishment fixed
at ten years Imprisonment in the state
penitentiary
Grand Rapids, visa fire destroyed
the three-.coly Touring mill owned by
Thomas F. Nash.
Lead. 5. D.-The large planning mill
Of Fish & Hunter was destroyed by fire.
I he loss is $4,000.
Burlington, Iowa.-Adjt-G Byers
and Maj. O.msted OF he Iowa national
guard have been looking up a site for
The safe encampment. 1t is believed
that Burlington Will be chosen.
Sioux Falls. s. D.-Word reaches
Sioux Falls Of the death by drowning
of two little children OF Mrs. Edward
Swartz of Freeport. H., while visiting
her father. Tobia Clementson. in
Union county. South Dakota.
indianapolis. Ind.-Mrs. Mary Cole.
30 years Of age was killed by being
sttrucbk over the head with an ak in
the hands OF John o. Duncan. in Nor
wood, suburb. Duncan admits kill
Ing the woman, but cannot tell why or
how he committed the deed.
Stoughton, visa. II. Joice cashier
or the defunct Dane county bank. was
arrested on a warrant sworn out bv
wldow. who charges him with having
taken deposit of 5000. giving i'm ex-
change his individual notes instead of
the usual certificates
Milwaukee. Wis.-Fifteen wears in
the state peniientiary is the sentence
imposed on Thomas Donahue and John
Rooney for the shooting of Patrolman
William Kruger. This was the max
lmum penalty. The crime was COM
mitted on the night of ApriI :
Cleveland, Ohio.-The entire front NJ
the brick house Of Abraham Kohns 81
Wadsworth street. was blown ont nv
an explosion Of gasoline. and Kohn.
MS wife and child are in the bosnital
The baby will surely die. and Kohn
hlmsei1 Is believed to be fatally burned.
Henville. Minn.-Leonard Mason
weil known young business man. and
William Anderson. who Just graduated
Win honors at the Renville high
school. were drowned while bathing
IN the Minnesota river
milwaukee,. Wis.-The English Evan
gelical Lutheran synod Of the north
west adjourned its convention after
adopting a uniform constitution for
the government of churches in the
synod.
Deiton, Mich.-More than thirty per-
sons are suffering aggravated chemical
poisoning, caused by eating ice cream
at a social given by the Ladies' Aid
society
New York;. A. Hankey has been
appointed receiver for Howard Lock-
wood & Co., publishers and printers.
or application Of the stockholders for
a voluntary dissolution of the COM
pany. Liabilities. s75,i5S; assets So
15G
Washington-John ]. Labor. a trans
Iator in the Office of the director of the
mint. fell from the second floor in The
treasury department to the basement.
probably receiving fatal injuries.
Trieste. Austria-Lord Kitchener of
Khartoum is detained in quarantine on
board steamer from Alexandria.
where deaths from u e plague have oc-
Cured
Buffalo, n. Y.-The national conyen-
tlon OF credit men unanimously elected
'John Field of Philadelphia and Fred
erick STANDARD of Denver president and
vice president respectively.
London-Advices received from East
Africa show famine is more prevalent
III the German provinces. owing to the
drought, which also prevails alarming
ly In the British protectorate.
City OF Mexico.-President Robinson
of the Mexican Central railway esfi-