Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-10
Ube Jnoepenoent
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1899.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
From Fridays Dailv.


Eli Miner, who lives near Bremen, is
reported quite lew.
Mrs. Stephen Gerard, of Bourbon, is
reported in a dying condition.
Farm horse for sale. Eight years old.
Weighs fourteen hundred. Forbes ld2v
Dan Barrett, who has been sick for
several months shows signs of cOnval
escence.
Miss Maude Walker was called to
Argos today where her sister, Miss Min
ME, lies very low.
Frank Stevens and family arrived
from South Bend this week and will
make their residence in Plymouth.
Rev. c. E. Weiss, the new pastor of
the German Evangelical church is NOV
ing bis family into the church parsonage
Harry Fristoe and Dallas Wolford, of
Bourbon, have Joined the regular U. 5.
army. They have been assigned to q
regiment in Alabama.
Mrs. Charles Wilhelm and her two
daughters, Cleta and Villa, left for Eos
toria, Ohio. this morning where they
will reside IN the future. Mr.. Wilhelm
has profitable work in that city.
j. s. Reeve is suffering acutely from
the erysipelas. He expects to go to
Larwill within q few days to receive
treatment.
The protracted meeting at InwOod
seems TO be destined to continuation in
definitely. Over hundred converts, it
is said, have been added to the church
already and the attendance grows larger
than ever.
"a Turkish Bath was presented at
the opera house last night and WIS
greeted by fair sized audience. The
performance was up to the average of
those which have showed in Plymouth
this winter. 1t was not play as the
name might indicate, but consisted in
the main of sketches, songs, dance, ETC.
The 4th u S. Regiment arrived at
Gibraltar Feb LIST, after an uneventful
voyage across the Atlantic. There has
been but four cases of sickness and one
death, so far The Matshall county boys
with the regiment are not among the
unfortunate ones. Today their ship
was steaming across the Mediterranean
in the direction of Cyprus.
Jacob Wise, farmer of Jackson
township, Carroll county. has sold to
LangdOn s. Son, of Frankfort, 81 600
worth of walnut timber, which the
purchasers will work up into gun stocks
on contract from the government. 1t
was a cash deal and the largest one
ever made in Carroll county. Last
year Mr.. Wise sold eighty-seven walnut
trees for $1,000.
Guy Porter arrived from Michigan
today noon and brought with him a
faithful companion who is said 10 be
one of the most famous fighters in three
states. The dog, for such 1t is, is
thorough bred bulldog, who is fire h
from the stock yard region OF Chicago
and has made it's appearance in the
arena before some of the SWEETEST sport.
ing clubs of the western metropolis.
In the states statistics there are some
queer figures given. 1t is shown that
25.043 marriage licenses were issued
during 1893 and that 1886 divorces were
granted. That is that over one tenth
as many divorces were granted as mar
riages contracted. One couple out of
every ten who we're married were di
vorced. More persons were put into
jail than we're married, the number be.
ing 1850 persons, of which %, 1873 were
male and 1,030 female.
A young man, who is well known in
this city, MAS made the victim of a
practical Joke last evening. Several
days ago he received bogus letter por-
tending to be from an attractive lady of
good standing. The letter stated brief
~ that the writer was enamored with
him and was willing To meet him at a
certain designated spot. Now, the heart
less jokers, un willing to dissapoint him,
dressed fine looking lad IN womans
clothes and stationed the cher" to await