Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-10
NEWS TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS
Minor Happenings of the Past
Week.
EVENTS OF LAST SEVEN DAYS.
Political. Religious, Social and Criminal
Doings of the Whole World Carefully
Condensed for Our Readers-The Ac-
cidept Record.

Morgantown. W. Va - Fire was
started by an explosion in Mechanical
hall of the University of West Viz
ginia and burned the building TO the
ground Loss. So. 600
Myerstown. Pa.-By boiler eXplo-
sion at Frank Smaltz stone quarry
Monroe Bllinger was instantly killed
and Irving Firestone and Frank Smaltz
injured.
San Jose. Cal.-Two bicycle riders,
David Aratio and Daniel Murphy, ran
into each other on the country road.
Aratio was killed almost instantly and
Murphy was cut and bruised
San Quentin. Gala conspiracy
among the convicts in the state prison
here to murder their guards and effect
a wholesale delivery OF prisoners has
been revealed TO Warden Hale,
Dallas. TEXAN Did grudge between
cOwbowS was settled WITH pistols at
Chii,irtss. in the TEXAS panhandle.
John Bailey AMI Thomas Palmer were
the principals in al informal duel and
both are dead.
Kansas City. MO.-The case against
DR. b. C. Hyde dean in the Kansas
City Homeopathic Medical college
charging him with Decorating the
grave of Michael Kelly. was dismissed
by the state
Kingston. Ont BY the falling of a
high wall &C the Odd-Fellows' build
ing. burned recently the furniture
store of r. 7. Harrison & Co. was dam
aged to the extent OF $4,000. Joseph
Gould was injured.
Ithaca. n DR.. F.. VI. Chanel @.
the chemical department OF Cornell
university has announced that nearly
all wallpaper sold at the present time
contains arsenical pOisOns. some OF
them in surprising quantities.
Cleveland. O.-Daniel Jones. alias j.
NJ. Wallace. who swindled the Citizens
Savings and Loan association bank Of
this city out OF $4,000 on forged
mortgage. was sentenced to ten years
in the penitentiary
Wheeling. w. Va subscriptions as-
gregating $4,000 for the American
University at Washington have been
raised in the Methodist churches. 1t
is planned TO raise 100000 in the en-
tire state to endow professorship.
Clarksville. Tenn.-While going
through the draw of the Louisville &
Nashville railroad bridge across the
Cumberland river here the Ryman line
steamer H. w. Buttorf was blown
against the stone piers by a heavy
wind and sunk All lives were saved
Cincinnati. O.-Certain creditors OF
the Herring HallMarvin Safe com
pany at Hamilton. o.. who recently
petitiOned the United States court &c
lift the company out of the hands OF
receivers, have asked to withdraw
their petition and have the present re-
ownership continue. 1t was so order
ed by the court
Lowell, Mass.-Patrolman John +
Healy is dying from injuries inflicted
by two burglars he found blowing opeI
safe. After shooting and beating
the officer into insensibility the cracks
men took his revolver. club. handouts
watch and $50 in bills and disap
peared.
Omaha Neb.-A blizzard preyaile,
in Nebraska, the mercury ranging from
zero to below.
Madrid-It is rumored that German!
iof 60. Ic
chase Of the Caroline islands.
Newcastle. Pa-The wages Of all da.
laborers in the tin-plate plants of tn
district have been advanced from } [,
10 per cent
Madrid The last contingent 0
Srain's Cuban army has reached Va
Iencia in the French steamer Cheribon
after ;enpestous passage
EIll!ston. MONTE. II. Eads.
brother Of James Buchanan Eads. tn
roted engineer. was found dead in hi
cabin near here, where he had lived a
2 hermit.
Atlanta, Ca.-Gold miners of Geor
gia formed the Southern Gold Miners
association. the object being to decid
upon cheaper methods in treating ore
Bradford. Pa-Thomas Nolan, age
IS. son Of a wellknOwn oil producer
was shot and probably fatally wounde
while trying to enter the house of for
mer Senate Lewis Emery.
Atlanta, Ga.-Hail and rain storm
did great damage in Georgia and Eas
Tennessee. Buildings were badly dam
aged in Marietta, Elberton and Car
tersvile, Ga Huge hailstones fell i
Atlanta.
Colorado Springs, Colo.-Frank
Mortimer. formerly of Chicago who's
disappearance in Denver Friday cause
a sensation and suspicion of foul pla.
has turned VI in San Francisco.
ST. Louis-The proposition for re
moval of the state capitol to St Lou
was twice defeated in the house.
Washington = Honolulu custom
house figures for 1898 just compile
show the total value Of exports W.
s17.346.744. against s16.o21.775 for 1879
impOrts. including specie. 81 65G 20