Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-14
MINOR EVENTS Of THE WEEK
News of General Interest Told in
Paragraphs.
COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY.
Record of Happenings OF Much or Little
Importance from All Parts OF the
Civilized WorId-Prices of Farm Pro-
duce in Western Markets.

Grim brothers. aged respectively ~
and II years, were drowred while
swimming.
Menominee. Mich.-The t0dy of Har-
rv Meredith. the printer Who was
drowned off Peshtigo Poin- last Octo-
Der while hunting ducks. was found on
the shore OF Hat island.
Sioux Falls. S. D.-Michael Dougher-
ty. 20 years old. was drowned in a
quarry pit. He was subject to epileptic
fits and fell from a twenty-foot bank
into the water.
Shoals. Ind-Harry Love. operator
for the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
railway. was stabbed five times while
engaged in a quarrel with Raymond
Salmon. He may survive.
Dubuque. Iowa.-The taking OF evil
dence in the water-works case has been
concluded. and the arbitrators meet
July q 10 hear arguments. II the ap
praisement exceeds half million dol
lars it is believed the people will re-
ject the purchase proposition.
Gresham. Wis-Sheriff Mcdonnell
has arrested \. J. WEIGH on a charge Of
numbering Wallace W Tousey on the
Fourth of July The shooting was the
result Of a feud that had existed for
years.
PhiladeIphia-Ott Won Ohlen, aged
81. whose father is said to be a wealthy
manufacturer of Columbus, Ohio, was
drowned in the Delaware river.
Boston. Mass.-Willard E. Baker,
who is wanted for embezzlement from
the Adams Express company. is now
on his way back from San Francisco,
in charge of officers.
Galveston. Texas-Gov. Savers is
sued a food sufferers proclamation,
especially requesting that neither sup
plies nor money be sent to any place
in the overlooked district without first
advising him.
Allentown. Pa. = Eighteen-y~lr-old
Charles Knauss shot and seriously
wounded Mrs. Edwin Dieffenderfer,
aged 26. and then killed himself, be-
cause Mrs Dieffenderfer refused to
elope with him.
Evansville. Ind.-Natiohal Commit
teeman Fred Dilcher of the United
Mine Workers of America denies that
southern Indiana operators are expect
ed by the miners to pay a 2 per cent
levy on their earnings for the support
of the miners union.
Atlanta. Ga.-Dr. E. Y. Mullins of
the Newton Center Baptist church.
Boston. has been elected to the presi-
dency OF the Southern Baptist Theo-
logical seminary at Louisville.
Florence, Kas.-John Beach, for
merly OF Peoria, H., has filed a petition
in bankruptcy, with liabilities of s45,-
600 and no assets
Normal, Ill.-Of the twenty-four
head of dairy cattle supplying milk for
the soldiers orphans home, fifteen
have been found by the tuberculin test
TO be diseased. and will be killed.
Berlln-Germany has officially in
dorsed the International commercial
congress to be held at Philadelphia
and will have an official delegate pres
ent at the opening of the congress
Oct. 10.
Philadelphia-The drying and finish
ing room of Robert II. Foerderer's mo-
rocco works was destroyed by fire.
Loss. $4,000.
New York.-Fire Commissioner Scan
mel has appointed Acting Fire Chief
Edward F. Croker. nephew of Richard
Croker, permanent chief CT the fire
department of Greater New York at q
salary of $4,000 a year.
Birmingham. Ala.-Frank Cook. col
ored, was hanged here for the muir
der OF John Blackburn, a railway con
ductor.
Johnstown, Pa.-The Cambria Steel
company has posted notices of a gen
eraI advance of wages of 10 per cent
ABOUT $500 men are affected by the
advance.
Vancouver. B. CA. r. Hill wa
Killed by street car. Hill, who was
common laborer, claimed to be the hei
OF Lord Armstrong. the famous gun
maker, but the peerage list gives NJ
heir to Armstrong.
Toronto.-Fire caused by a sparl
from a locomotive totally destroyed
machinery hall on the industrial ex
hlDition grounds, and damaged the az
rieultural implement hall. The loss i.
SIS, 900.
Saginaw. Mich.-Fire destroyed tn,
Green, Ring & Co. sawmin, one of tn,
Oldest mills in Saginaw valley Tw.
salt blocks were burned and the los
on these is complete. Loss, $4,000
insurance. partial
New York-The naphtha launcl
Dandy. with twelve men on board
which was reported missing. was foun
stranded near Rockaway Beach. AL
On board were safe.
Philadelphia, Pa. T. Carr. VIII
pulled the bow oar for the Universit
OF Pennsylvania in the freshman eigh
at Porghkeepsie last week, was kille
In an electric car collision.
GAINESVILLE. Motive men wer
drowned in the Mississippi river a mil
above here by the Overturning of
Skin. They were William Hodge
Henry Rowland of GAINESVILLE, Mo.
j. w. Philips. Arnold Philips and W
}. Jamison of Hamburg, III.
Pittsburg, Pa.-Enoch Eavanoski'
young wife Emma and his infan
daughter Emma were burned to deaf
as the result of an explosion of an o
can with which the woman attempte
to start a fire at their home.