Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-10
Tbe Jnoepenoent
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1889.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
From Fridays Daily.

BOrn-TO Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Holley,
a daughter, Nov Bird, 1899.
Harvey Steele has received barrel
of shellbark hickory nuts from Ohio.
A portion of the recorders office has
been fitted up with Brussels carpet and
leather upholstered chairs as private
office.
At special meeting of the directors
of the Pennsylvania railroad yesterGaH
a semi-snnual dividend of 212 per &C.
was declared.
VIM. McAlpine, principal of ,
Etna Green public schools, came down
with two of his teachers today TO visit
the schools here.
). W. Rothenberger and wife arrived
today frcm Frankfort to visit with
friends here Mr.. Rothenberger has
been in st. Louis for about six weeks
taking caro- of an exhibit at the exposi
ton.
Frank Webb, of South Bend, who
smuppled saws ond files into the Kala-
mazoo jail in order that the Richlsnd
bank robbers might escape, has been
given five years sentence by Judge
Buck, of Kalamazoo.
The famous pacing stallion. "Tasco.
owned by Ward 81 Spencer, of Roches-
ter, died Wednesday of last week from
paralysis of the stomach the trouble
being brought on by hard 20 Dile
drive. The animal was valued at $500
The wire nail trust has served notice
that the big plants at Anderson, lnd
which have been idle since May, Will
not restart so long as the price of steel
continues at present quotations. Steel
has advanced $50 per ton during tie
year.
A Florida man has just succeeded In
Matching an ostrich egg In an lncu-
bator. This is the first successful effort
of this kind in this country, though II
has often been tried in California. IL
took Al days for the bird to come
through.
Statistics which have been collected
In Wisconsin show the average cost OF
raising wheat to be "a cents a bushe
and the cost of corn q cents. In botf
cases there sre included interest or INT
value of the land, with the cost Of i'm
plements and horses added in.
Men exposed to the rigors of tn
Alaskan winter never wear mustaches
They wear full boards TO protect thei
thrOats and faces, but keep their uppe
lips clean shaver. The moisture from
the breath congeals so quickly that
mustache becomes embedded In s0ll
cake of ice, and the face is frozen in
short time.
The ministers at Fort Wayne hav
issued an address to the people on tn
subject of the divorce evil and resolve
that they would Officiate at the marriag
of no person who had been divorce
unless such divorce was iD cOnsOnanc
with the word of God. The squire
are not In this combine and are likel
to become plutocrats in consequence
Abner Griffin, of Rolling Prairie, Lit
porte county, left for the west sewers
years apo with but a few dollars in b
pocket to find a fortune. He locate
near Seattle, Washington, and with
pick dug for wealth. Griffin no.
writes friends that he rs the owner of
large copper mine about 80 miles fror
Seattle, the output of whic1 is unlin
tied. He is said to be rapidly amassln
fortune.
President Bradbury, of the Lake Err
& Western railroad, announced la
night that, although no formal al
nouncement on the subject had bee
made as yet, the railroads of the entii
country had united in a petition whic
IL was intended to present to the GO
eminent within the next month, askin
that the time limit during which II
interstate commerce commission ht
decided that all railroads must equi
their cars with automatic cOuplers an
air brakes be extended from JAM
airy 1, 1900 to year from that date.
The commercial apple crop of tt
United. States approximates 100000
barrels, considerable gain over la'
years phenomenslly short yield, br
much less than in some recent year
according to the October issue {
Orange Judd Farmer, where its final n
port of this crop appears. The section