Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-04-27

give up her work at the university ana
Mrs. Ketcham has gone to bring her
here.
James NJ Baker, OF LapaZ, died at
the home of his brother William at 8
o'clock this morning. lie was a young
man being about q years old. His
parents are both dead and he was un-
married having made his home with
his brother for some time. The disease
which caused his death was cOnsump-
ton of the lungs.
Mr. Thompson received letter yes
terday from his daughter Phoebe 1t
was dated March %, and was written
from Kerenhappuck. They had spent
some time after landing in sydney
Feb. Is, in that city, but on account
of the plague they removed to the place
of writing, a suburb of Sydney. The
health of all was very good.
The total amount of mortgages re-
corded in Marshall county on real es-
tate from April |, 1899, to April, 1900, is
1878, O63. This does not include chat
ties of any kind. All real estate secur-
tiles. Residents of st. Joseph and La
porte counties own 60 per cent of the
whole amount. This statement is su-
en- Job NV no IN
assessor.
President Kruger, of the Transvdal,
is the subject of highly picturesque
character study in Frank Leslie's Pop
ular Monthly for May, entitled "Oom
Paul: a Living Legend" The sketch in
cludes prepossessing account of aunt
lie Kruger" the presidents wife, and is
illustrated with some unique portraits
Ethel West also gives some Iacy ex-
tracts "From the Diary of Tsnt' An.
neitie, of Hoogte Kloof, Transvsal."
John III. Smith, resident of the
state of Kansas, was in our city a few
hours this morning. He came east on
a stock pass for Mt. Vernon, but
through some maneuvering he was
taken through Strestor, ILL.,, and from
thence along the b & o. BY the time
he had reached Wslkerton he was con-
WINGED that he was not on the right
track, 80 he came to Plymouth, going
from here tn TOuisyilla
The semi-annual Sunday school con.
vention of Union township will be held
at the Evangelical church in Culver
next Saturday. The program has been
arranged and from it we see that 1t will
consist of morning and an afternoon
session. The work will be carried on
almost entirely by the home workers
j. w. Parks being the only one from
away who will take part. The program
is an interesting one and promises tt
draw crowd.
English officers will be in Chicago
next week, where they will purchase
not less than $1,000 and possibly az
high as $4,000 horses for military ser
vice in South Africa. They expect tt
buy chiefly from the great producing
centers of Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana
Missouri and Iowa. This is not the
only purpose for which horses will bt
exported, as travelling man was heard
to say that he saw five carloads or fat
tened ANIMALS being shipped to the sea
of war to be slaughtered for food.
Elmer E. Crockett, Thirteenth Dis
trict committeeman, will be brough
out, after the republican gubernatoria
nominations are made, as a candidat,
for national committeeman to succeed
w. II. Durbin of Anderson. First Dis
trict Committeeman Cunningham oil
Evansville has withdrawn, and the race
will be between Harry S. New and Mr.
Crockett, both of them newspaper men
There will be thirty votes cast in the
selection of the new committeeman
making sixteen necessary to a choice
Mr.. Crockett's managers have been a.
work for ten days. Some of his friend
already claim enough votes to nominate
him.