Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-08-10
MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK
Items Of Genera Interest Told in
Paragraphs.
COMPLETE NEWS SUM MARY.
Record of Happenings of Much or Little
Importance from All Parts of the Civ
nized WorId-Prices of Farm Products
IN Western Markets.

W. X Vanderbilt, Jr., and wife had
narrow escape from death at Newport,
their automobile running under feet of
rearing horses.
DOVE elders prevented from leaving
train al Mansfield. o.. where mob
awaited them; Zionists may be indict-
ed for libel.
Lora Leeper, Fulton county, Illinois.
nephew OF Senator Cullom, crazed by
heat. attempted suicide.
Milwaukee motorman's celluloid col
lar ignited by current He may die.
His name is Charles Saunders.
DR.. Thomas McClelland accepted
Presidency OF Knox College, Ill
Washington cranks asked police to
stop crying OF babies.
Circus toughs terrified Minnesota
towns; troops in pursuit.
DIR. Thomas McClelland, head of the
college at Forest Grove, Oregon, &C
cepted the presidency OF Knox college
at Galesburg, III.
-Four persons killed and several in
jurded by extreme heat in Chicago
Saturday and Sunday.
The British report they have such a
strong Gordon around Gen. Christian
Dewet that he will not be able to es-
cape.
The king or Servia weds his moth
er's former lady-in-waiting
Four thousand Paris cab drivers go
out on strike.
Italian deputies may take the oath
of allegiance TO the new king in a
body
King Victor Emmanuel III. proclaims
he Will protect liberty and monarchy
in Italy against all foes, and will pre-
serve the sanctity of Rome.
American Anarchist Lanner admits
plot and says he would have killed
King Humbert had Bresci failed.
Queen Wilhelmina reviewed the fish
ing fleet of 900 vessels in the Zuyder
zee and accepted flowers from fisher
girls.
The man who tried to kill the shah
Of Persia was identified as Francois
SalsOn, former French army corpor-
al and an anarchist.
Nearly 1900 mechanics employed on
the Canadian Pacific system strike
charging the company with bad faith
One death from yellow fever and two
other cases reported from Tampa
Florida.
In the Caleb Powers trial one state
witness was impeached and another
was shown to have been discharged fol
theft.
The Homestead mine at Lead City
S. D., has produced So, 900. 900 in gold
in twenty-three years and paid 50 1000
600 in dividends to its owners.
Major George A. Armes, retired
most court-martialed man in army
sued for $4,000 for breach of promise
by Ella NJ. Plat.
Annual encampment OF Illinois Ma
tional guard ended amid wild disorder
court unable to fix blame for explo
sion.
President Mckinley and king o
Portugal exchanged congratulatorl
messages over new direct cable.
Population of Milwaukee by censu.
returns, 2S5.315; increase, 1884 De
cent for decade
Plague appeared in London, two o
crew Of steamer Rome dying and TIVE
others in hospital; port officer not IL
fear of epidemic.
Raising funds for navy arch in New
York practically abandoned
Orimar wins Berwyn stakes in
romp at Hawthorne.
Democrats carried the North Caro-
lima election by about 100000
An clipping couple in Missouri ar
drowned while crossing a river to es
cape an irate father.
Over 5000 Roumanian Jews en- rout
to Canada; majority penniless; ulti
mate destination United States.
District and Metropolitan under
ground railways, London, to replac
steam with electricity at once
Many small railroads absorbed b.
large systems; $4,000 miles of roa
now controlled by twenty-eight cor
porations; three over 10000 mile
each.
Rumor Cuban postal frauds may re
suit in arrests in postoffice in Ney
York, where band that robbed Havan
Office is said to have had accomplices
Members of House Rivers and Har
bors committee will inspect lake port
and western rivers. expecting to reac
Chicago on Aug. 90.