Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-07
BUCK, The Cash Hardware Man.

going through graveyard aud it is al
legged that the Knickerbocker Ice COM
psny fixed up dummy cemetery on
their land and imported cOrpses from
Chicago.
Last spring MIR. L. BoswOrth, west of
town, bought one pound of onion seed
from +. A Forbes and put them on a
quarter acre OF ground, from whic' he
harvested one hundred and seventy-five
bushels of onions. 2d2w
The 160ih Indiana regiment embark
ed for home on the transport Thomas
the other day and will reach Savannah
sometime tomorrow afternoon and will
probably be mustered out of the service
at that place in about three weeks.
Locomotive works in the United
States are now engaged in manufacture.
ing 81 locomotives for the Trans-Sibe-
tan railway of Russia, 80 for the Mid
land railway of England, 90 for Sweden,
10 for Egypt and 10 for French state
railways.
Several Laporte citizens report seeing
formation OF stars in the heavens
Tuesday night resembling perfect
cross, the ce tier being occupied by the
moon. The Laporteans had evidently
been sojournIng in Michigan City for a
few hours.
Nils Lindquist. who recently gradual
ed from one of the best medical schools
in the United States, has concluded to
open up an office in Plymouth and may
hereafter be found with DR.. How
Nils has been close student, and will
beyond doubt, be an able practitioner
Adolph Mayer writes from Fort
Worth, Texas, that the weather is ex
I ceediDgly hot, being about "a degrees in
the shade. This would seem remark.
able contrast with the weather recently
experience here. Some idea concerning
the vastness of Uncle Sans domains
may be gained by such contrast.
The new postal laws which are now
being compiled have greatly broadened
the scope of the clause prohibiting the
transmission of obscene matter. Here
tOfore only that class was held to be
obscene which tended to lewdness, but
the new law places everything of a vul-
gar or indecent nature in the class
The penalty for sending such matter is
very severe.
At Indianapolis the authorities have
decided to keep up the war on faitt
healers. John Harrison and wife, whC
refused to permit physician to trea
their daughter, who was suffering from
appendicitis, were fined by justice Of
the peace and the humane society, by
order of the justice, took the girl away
from the faith healers, who were pray
ing for her recovery and sent her to thu
city hospital, where an opera ton wa
performed.
Yesterday afternoon the jury entered
their verdict in the case of Schilt agains
Lemon for assault. The defendent wa
convicted of the crime. 1t appears tina
the two men, who were employed in tn
Bremen Radiator Works, had engaged
in friendly sparring match. AS tn
fight proceeded mirth changed int
anger and the result was On arrest
When tried before the justice 10 Bremen
the decision did not please Schilt. Ill
carried it to the courts here but did no
profit thereby for the decision of tn
Justice was sustained.
There has been 80 much reference L
the recent cable news from Europe t
the strong feeling in France agains
England, and so much significant al
fusion to the experiments which tn
French are making with submarin
boats, that the question of the posslbi
ity of French military force eve
crossing the English Channel becomin
interesting, writer in the April Cos
mopolitsn, "Quatre Etoiles"- evidentl
nom de plume-tells an ingeniou
story of the result of the coDsummatiO
one hundred years later of that pla
which was first conceived by NapOleo
when he brought his army to the PLAIN
of boulogne in 1900.
From Saturdays Daily.