Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-17
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-
cident Record.

ticket agent in this city, dropped dead
AT the Hotel Madison.
Paris-Great commotion was caused
in political circles here by the con
firmation of report that Procuratoi
General Marau had resigned.
StOckhOlm-I-ast week 1884 cases OF
influenza were reported here. The
disease was fatal in 229 cases.
New York-Rear Admiral Sampson
ton six vessels. which was discOn-
tinued during the war with Spain, but
soon i. be revived.
Phi elphia. Pa.-The thirteenth
annual convention of the independent
Order of Birth Abraham met here.
Wash;ngton-The government Will
be asked for an appropriation of So
100000 for the Louisiana purchase cen
tennial exposition i'm 1901.
Big Rapids, Mich. The home Of An
ton Bader, near here, burned. and Mrs.
Bader and her 2-yearold son persisted
IL the flames.
Auburn, Jeremiah Dingley. an
uncle of the late Congressman Dingley.
is dead aged a. He was a banker
and member of the Dingley-FOss
Shoe company.
Ludington, Mich.-The Flint and
Pere Marquette car ferry broke all win
ter navigation records by crossing
Lake Michigan from Manitowoc to
this place in twelve hours, through u
field of unbrOken ice.
London-Paris papers assert the ne
gOtiations which have been in progress
between the French and British gov
ernments regarding the Bahr-el- Cha
Zal basin, west of the White Nile. are
on the eve of satisfactory settlement.
Paris-A dispatch from Cayenne,
capital of French Guiana, says Drey-
fus. the Devils Island prisoner, is in
good health, but declines TO reply to
the court of cessation questions on the
ground that his answers are inaccu-
rately transmitted to Paris
Boise, Idaho-Cari Kent of Ort. Ere
mont county. Idaho. was frozen to
death while hunting at Warm Springs
y
of the camp. He had fallen exhausted
within hailing distance of his COM
radeS
Wymore. Neb.-Henry Ardmore. a
farmer. was found six miles south of
here. frozen to death.
Grand Rapids, Mich.-Don J. Leath-
ers, for several years a member OF the
tnfn ,t,sa1 ftno
and delegate to the national conven-
ton in 1892. died in Tallahassee. Fla.
ROme-Prince Napoleon Charles
BOnaparte died here. He was born in
Rome, February 5, 1899
Niles. Mich.-Oscar Wheelock. an
Old and wealthy resident of Penn, Cass
county. was kicked to death by mad
horse.
Marquette. Wis-Nellie Howard was
burned to death in fire in a boarding
house. She had no relatives here.
Christiania.-Dr. Nansen considers
it highly improbable that the bodies
found between KOmO and the Pit river
Siberia, are those of Prof Andree and
his companions.
Fhich have been raging in the noun
tains northwest of this city. destroy
ing the villages of Villar. Hurias, Ian
acos and Casavide, have finally been
extnguished.
Toledo, O.-Vincent Shibenski de-
liberately fired reviewer into a crowd
Of small boys, killing Stephen Bio
shoski and seriously wounding two
others.
Youngstown. O.-By an explosion al
an iron furnace Patrick Moore was in
stantly killed and five other employees
badly hurt.
Golden, Ill.-Virgil l. Grubbs Of
Centralia, an Illinois Central brake
man, fell between two cars six miles
north of Golden and was killed. The
body was dragged five miles.
New York-Liquor men are organ
izing an opposition to the liquor trust
1t is a local effort. but it promises t.
be of large proportions. 1t is fatheret
by several of the leading wholesale
liquor dealers in New York, and theil
plans are nearly perfected
Colorado Springs. COlo.-James N
Holmes. prospectOr. has been foun'
frozen to death on Pixies peak
Milwaukee, Wis.-Henry Walden. The
well-known landscape artist. died a
his home in Layton Park. a suburb o.
Milwaukee. He was 65 years old.
Washington.-Majo Henry o. Heis
tand of the acknowledgements depart
ment has been detailed as militar,
attache OF the United States commits
sioners to the Paris exposition.
Casco. Wis.-George Krecma n well
TODD farmer. aged 55 was killed b.
being kicked by horse
Milwaukee, Wis. - The Methods
Ministers Association Endorsed tn
proposed marriage license law and up
pointed committee TO work for th
passage of the law.
Kankakee. Ill-Dr j. c. CorbuS va
installed as superintendent Of the Kan
kakee insane hospital
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