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Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
JACkSON,S PERIL.
Almost Forgotten Attempt on the Pres
ident'S Life.

Almost Forgotten Attempt on the Pres
ident's Life.
On March 80, 1885, Gen. Jackson was
attending the funeral of Warren r.
Davis, a member of congress from
South Carolina. at the capitol, and
while walking in procession to take d
carriage on the east front of the capt.
toll he was approached by a man
named Richard Lawrence. who pre-
scented pistol within a few feet OF
him. The cap exploded but did not ig-
mite the charge. Lawrence threw the
pistol away and drew another. which
also missed fire. Gen. Jackson was on
the arm of Mr.. Woodbury., secretary of
the treasury, but pursued the assassin
with raised cane Lieut.. Gedney of the
navy knocked Lawrence down, and the
friends of the president tried to re-
strain him. but he said: Let me go,
gentlemen; l am not afraid. They can't
kill me. | can protect myself" Law
renee was arrested and arraigned be-
fore Judge Cranch and committed. At
the trial he behaved much as Guiteau
did, interrupting the proceedings and
talking all the time. until the judge
ordered him to be removed from the
court room. A commission appointed
to examine into his condition reported
him of unsound mind. He was COM
mitted to an insane asylum. where he
lived for many years. There was an
attempt made 10 involve some political
adversaries of Gen. Jackson IN this at
tempt on his life. but the examination
and trial revealed nothing but that II
was the act of a mailman. Gen. Jack
sons escape from death was proyiden-
tial The pistols were loaded very
heavily, and after the arrest of Law
renee were fired. the caps exploding
and igniting the powder readily N The
pistol and sending the balls through
several inches of plank. 1t was stated
that Gen. Jackson said at the time that
he knew where the attempt originated.
Washington Post
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
LAND OF HUMMING BIRD.
Phenomenon That Follows Digging In
Trinidad's Asphalt Lake.

The tourist MAJ take passage to the
"land of the humming bird"-as Trim
idad people like their country to be
called-and after securing accommoda-
ton at the only decent hotel in the
colony, proceed TO the lake by one OF
the small government steamers plying
coastwise three times weekly, disem-
bark at the Brighton pier, and proceed
to the scene of digging" OF all the
crude, rough and ready means of ex-
tracing wealth from mother earth, the
Trinidad lake asphalt operations are
the most striking, says writer in the
New York Post The Visitor arrives
on fairly level plateau, spotted here
and there with tiny pools of water. be-
meath which the soft shiny substance
known as asphalt glitters in the re-
Elections of fierce tropical sun. Seat
tered over the surface of the lake doz.
ems of swarthy negroes are plying pick
and hoe. extracting the tar-coaly look
ing stuff from the earth. One may sit
in the shade of a nearby shrub or
under the protecting shelter of an UNI
brella and watch the negroes pile heap
after heap of the asphalt into the end
of the endless chain OF tubs that hurry
along to the pier, from which one has
but recently landed, until a yawning
excavation of twenty or more feet sug
gests to the supervising darby that the
time has come TO move bit further
on. In the course of a few hours the
excavation resulting from the morn
ing's diggings begins to look less deep.
and by the evening the spot from
which more than five or ten tons have
been dug is again level with the sur
rounding earth and ready to be dug
over by the gang of noisy blacks.
From the point of digging to the pier
is about a mile or less of endless
chain descent; moored to the pier are
big sailing vessels and sometimes
steamers, into whose capaciOus holds
the tubs discharge the pitch at the
rate of two or three hundred tons yer
day.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
Growth of Gpif.

Six years ago there were only five
clubs in the United States Golf Asso-
citation. Now there are twenty-five
associate and 225 allied clubs on the
roll. There are now In existence
about twenty state or other branch
leagues subordinate to the United
States Golf Association, and that in
many instances a golf club is content
to remain only member of it's local
organization is shown by the record
In Newman's Official Golf Guide for
1900, which gives a list of nearly 900
regularly organized clubs. New York
heads the list. with 153. The same au-
thority estimates that there are at
least 100000 golfers in the United
States
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Winter Wheat-No. red. 76ieG7sc: No.
a, red 123sgl4c; No red e191Vhe; m no
719sc: No. white 6912c
Spring Wheat-No. Northern. 1890
grade. 6OM65c; No. white. zoe.
Corn-No. 2, 4Gdi03sc: No. vel 4Ol4c:
yellow. 4Oit a 4C%c: No. 1. S9ssa3s7sc.
Oats-No. 4. H14c: No. 4 while. 2S2sG
23l%c; No white. 24c; No. 2, 22Ac.
d12.S5; lard. regular $7.22lsQ725; short
rib sides ss.l0dS.90: picked hams. 1902
lbs. s7s@sc; picked hams. ls lbs. s,kg
shsc; picnic hams. 57sq6isc: bellies. 9la9
CSC: smoked hams. 9isdlOAc: skinned
hams. iOss@10ac: shoulders. 7AQ71sc; pic
mic hams. 67sQ7bc.
Cattle-Native shipping and export d.6!
M570: dressed beef and butcher steers. 81
a53O; steers under loo lbs. s3-5Od5; stock
ers and feeders. S25Oui.15: cows and he'll
fers, 81 Mai-70: Gamers. N5o@2 20; bulls.
S2M350. Texas and Indian steers, $3u4.J;
COWS and heifers 81. 25Gi55o
Hogs-Pigs and lights. s5.20d5.4o; pack
ers, s5.25M5.40: butchers. s5.3oa5.5O.
Sheep-Native m1t'ons. s. ,ea425: lambs.
si@5.25: culls and bucks. $2.I5q3B: stock
ers S243.35.
Buttsr-Extra creamery. 2l@2lAc: firsts.
isi.Ql91sc: seconds. lsnl6l2c: limitation
firsts, l6c.
Cheese-Full cream. twins. l0AIlOlsc;
off grades. selloc: daisies 16%@Ilc: Young
America. 1im1l1.c: cheddars. lOAc.
Eggs-Fresh. loss off. cases returned,
Ice per doz.
Green Fruit-AppIes sIG3 per brl. ac-
cordinS TO quality; general run. 3l.25d2-
Grapes. black S-b baskets, 9d9l2c: white.
I0H12c. Pears. Bartletts. s2n4 per brl:
other varieties, 81. 509i3.25.
Poultry-Live turkeys. good TO choice.
M@l5c per ID; gobblers. Sc: young turkeys.
roosters. &c per Id; ducks. SC per Id;
geese. S3.J0uG.25 per doZ.
Potatoes-Burbanks. 31M34c: Peerless
30fi 3Sc: Hebron 30Ft32c; Rose. 30GI32c; early
Ohio 2SV 3Oc per bu.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
NEGRO BURNED AT STAKE.
Alabama Black Lynched for Attack or
White Woman.

White Woman.
Winfield Townsend, a negro who
Monday made an attack upon Mrs
Lonnie Harrington, was burned at the
stake in the village Of Eclectic, Ala,
early Tuesday morning. The husband
of the negro's victim applied the torch
to the pile of pine knots above which
the culprit had been bound, and, with
several dozen of his friends and neigh
bors, stood by while the flames did
their work. AS they leaped TO the
flesh of the negro he cried wildly for
mercy and writhed il agony until he
lost consciousness. The crowd stood
silently about the pyre for half an
hour, at the end of which time moth
ing remained of the heap of wood and
the human body but ashes.
The negro had run away after the
commission of the crime. but was
traced with bloodhounds. and found
sitting on the limb of tree. He was
taken before Mrs. Harrington, who
identified him. and then to a lonely
spot TO be slain.
Then halt was called and the man
ner Of death discussed by the mob. A
vote was taken. and the balloting
showed a majority of the crowd to
favor death at the stake The stake
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12

nearing its end. While there is no
positive announcement to that effect.
there are indications that the big COM
panies and individual operators arc
getting ready to concede the demands
Of the men that their union be recOg-
nized, and this, with the 10 per cent
increase in wages granted, will at once
start up every colliery in Pennsyl-
vania, leaving minor differences to be
adjusted by arbitration. The COM
panies realize that they must surrender
and are preparing to do so as grace
fully as the circumstances will admit
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12

DR.. 1Innnam said was not OF the most
approved make, was only an inch
across in it's widest part, that fitting
across from gum TO sum of the back
teeth.
From the soft palate" end to the
point where the teeth were attached
was one and one-quarter inches. and
the point where the teeth were attach
ed was nine-sixteenths of an inch
across. There was no gum wofS On
the plate.
Dr. Joseph Van Osinski, deputy coro-
ner, told Sheriff Lawrence of Lake
county, that he had placed the plate
and teeth in the little coffin in which
he had buried the crumbled skull af-
ter the inquest, in which he declared
murder had been done.
The Importance of the plate as a
clew was so great that arrangements
were made to exhume 1t. DR.. Osinski
was preparing to accompany the sher-
if to the cemetery, when he put his
hand into his overcoat pocket. There
he found the plate. Sheriff Lawrence
seized it eagerly He had not seen 1t
before
While Or. Osinski was inclined to
think the head was that Of man, he
admitted that he based his opinion en-
tirely on his examination OF the hair.
He found two grades. enc coarse and
one very fine. Before the head fell to
pieces in Sheriff Lawrence'S hands he
had noticed hair clinging to the lime
like substance that answered for flesh,
and he believed the head was that OF
a man with a beard.
From the fact that there were fine
and coarse hairs DR.. Osinski figured
the same way although he never saw
the head before it broke into frag-
ments.
Sheriff Lawrence Is proceeding en-
tirely on the theory that woman
was the victim OF tie lake murder
! mystery. All about Cedar Lake. among
the regular dwellers and the cottages,
is intense excitement, and a demand
for the fullest investigation.
Foreman McKinnon of the Armour
ice house at Cedar Lake. admitted
that one of the 300 men employed
there last winter had failed to call for
, three days pay due him, and that the
amount was still to his credit on Ar
mour & Co.'S books In the Chicsg go
| office. But he said 1t was nothing I'M
usual for the ice cutters to wander
away in that manner. There had been
no serious quarrels among the men
: during the past few winters, as far
as he knew.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
THE CEDAR LAKE MYSTERY.
Work for Detectives at Crown
Point, Ind.
A W0MAk'S SKULL Is FOUND.
Dental Plate In the Mouth the Possible
Clew That May Lead to Identity of
the Deceased-Looks Like n Murder
Case-Sleuth Work Begins.

Citizens Of Crown Point, Ind, and
vicinity are wrought up over the find
ing of a grewsome skull in Cedar Lake
Saturday, by little Tony Hertzler.
The lad was fishing and his hook
brought up the bony framework of
what is supposed TO have been the
head CT a woman.
The fine hair on the skull and the
peculiarly delicate curve of the tooth
plate-these are their chief proofs. An
important clew is believed to exist in
the peculiar fashioning Of a dental
plate found in the mouth.
The teeth were upper incisoys, run
ming from The left eye tooth TO the
front of the mouth. The plate. which
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12

Eight persons were injured. one OF
them probably fatally, in a coli ion
between a Calumet electric car and the
engine OF Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern suburban train at Seventy
ninth street and Stony Island avenue.
Chicago. The car was reduced TO
splinters and the tender OF the pas
senger train forced from the track.
Motorman Dowse. who had charge OF
the car only four days, probably will
die as the result of his injuries. Rev.
Father Mathew Hanley OF the St.
Ailbe Catholic church. South Chico go.
escaped death in a marvellous man
ner He distinguished himself by
his GOODNESS and administered extreme
JUNCTION to several of the passengers
who were thought 70 be near death.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12

Telegraphic advices from Tampieo.
Mex, state that the Panuco and Tames
rivers, which empty into the 81 at
that place. are on one of the biggest
rises in their history and great dam
age has been wrought by the floods
in the populated and cultivated val
legs above there. At one point near
Chila station, on the line of the Mexi-
co Central railroad. the Tames river
is over fifty miles wide and has swept
to destruction hundreds of houses oc-
cupied by Mexican farmers and la
borers. Many cases of drowning are
reported.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12

Milling company, Port Huron and
NoI Lnweslern Elevator company and
ID. McMorran L. Co. was destroyed by
fire at Port Huron. Mich. entaiIing q
loss of $226.OU0. fully covered by IN
surance. A train of cars was backed
into the elevator and an effort made
to save part of its contents. but the
smoke forced the men to quit work.
Wilbur inslee, business man, was In
jured during the progress Of the fire
By falling on the track
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
Cool Under Fire.

That man gets used to anything"
has been shown again by the extra
ordi nary cases of GOODNESS under fire
az the front in the South African war.
A. I.abuschagne's mex private in the
deadly zone of fire tore open a letter
from his sister and began to read II
eagerly: a wounded batsman at Lady
nmith finished his run at cricket before
dropping dead; trooper named
Charles Hands kept his cigarette
alight between falling from his horse
with fractured thigh and being taken
to the hospital.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12

Three hundred plans were submit
ted in an architects competition in
New York for model tenement houses
and the first prize plan is TO be used
at once. The new buildings will be
fire proof throughout and will occupy
20 per cent of the ground space. leav-
ing 80 per cent for light and air. In
each room a window will open into
the outer air and each apartment will
be connected with private hall and
baths, play grounds, clothes drying
chambers and storage rooms. 1t is
calculated that rental of 81 a week
per room will give satisfactory profit.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
Discuss the "Help" Problem.

The National Household Economic
association meeting at Toronto, Ont.
wrestled with the household help prob
lem without suggesting any new or
radical methods Of dealing with the
trouble. Mrs. Smaller of New York
introduced the subject and asked for
light and experience. One Of the
speakers said there were 100 typewrit-
ers wanting situations to one cook.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
Pnrk Nav Reach $50.

With the worlds visible supply lin
tied to $4,000 barrels, it is said by
those who are In a position to know
that pork will soon touch the
$40 mark. At Chicago Saturday
the shorts did the bidding
and the price went from $14 to $17
barrel, closing strong. With this
advance there was a total purchase OF
$500 barrels, which represented loss
as high as $4,000 to $4,000, according
to the date when the short sales were
made.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
Whites and Negroes Clash.

A great negro uprising of negroes
is feared at Georgetown, S. c. A riot
broke out in the rice fields between the
editor of the Georgetown Times, was
shot and had one leg amputated as
the result of his wound. Troops are
on the scene and a race war is i'm
minent
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12

In his address at Appleton, WIS, to
five candidates about to be ordained
to the ministry, Bishop Mallilieu, the
presiding officer of the Wisconsin
Methodist conference, denounced the
prevalence of immoral stories in cur
rent literature, referring to Quo
Vadis" as a book that no Methodist
should permit in his home
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
Crew Is Slain by Natives

The steamer MiOwera, which arrived
at Vancouver. B. c., from the
South seas, brought news that Capt.
Robert Lyme. two officers, three white
men and fifteen native members of the
crew of the trading bark Almond were
killed by the natives of Los Negros
island. The vessel had a short but
adventurous existence and ended its
career on a coral reef Five men lost
their lives in the snowfields OF the
Tasmanian mountains Aug. g. They
were members of a scientific party
from Melbourne
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
Fast PAGER Drops Dead

Wight. black gelding. with a pac-
ing record of 2:17A. dropped dead on
the last quarter in the fourth heat
of the 2:1S trot at Charlotte, Mich.
Wight had second place when death
came. The horse was owned by H. c.
Knell of Port Huron and was valued
al $4,000
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12

State Secretary OF Agriculture John
Hamilton of Pittsburg caused infor-
nations to be entered against 419
dealers in oleomargarine in that city.
About 800 samples of butter We're pro-
cured by detectives. Of these 49S
were found to be oleomargarine. Most
of the oleomargarine sold at Pittsburg
comes from Chicago.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
KASKASKIA Is WASHED WAY.
Mississippi River Now Flows over First
Capital OF Illinois.

Capital OF Illinois
BY another peculiar shift of the
current of the Mississippi river
within the past few days every
remaining trace of the village of
Old Kaskaskie has been swept
into the waters, which now flow di-
rectly over the spot where was Cnce
located the first white settlement west
Of the Allegheny mountains and the
first capital OF the state OF Illinois
With the exception of a few psbhe rec
ords and documents picked Up in some
of the decayea buildings before their
complete destruction, nothing more
than q memory of the historic old set
tiement remains. The old Pope house,
the first brick structure built west OF
the Ohio, in which the first session o..
the first legislature OF Illinois Was held,
was the last building to be washed into
the waters.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
Hat Snatcher IL Taken.

The hat snatcher" OF Chicago has
come to grief. She was arrested
Thursday afternoon by Policeman
John II. Meyers at State and Washing
ton streets, after she had made an
unsuccessful attempt to gain posses
sion of the hat of Mrs. j. III. Teuheft,
who lives at 1928 State street.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
OrientaIs as Soldiers.

No European nation has succeeded in
holding or controlling tropical posses
sions without the aid of native troops.
Moreover, these can be maintained at
a much smaller cost than white SOL
diers, not to speak Of the great expense
of transportation. Two-thirds OF the
Dutch army in Java is composed Of
native troops; Spain. before the insur-
rection, had over $4,000 natives doing
military service in the Philippines, and
England's success in converting the
Egyptian fellahs into good soldiers Is
another example of how apparently
poor material can be utilized.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
Killed from Ambush.

While reclining on a chair beside an
open window at his home at Oriental
Juniata county, Pa, Adam Goodling
was shot through the mouth by an IN
known assassin and instantly killed.
On Sunday Mr.. Cooling was heard to
remark that he had but two enemies
IL the world OF one Of whom he was
terribly afraid
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
Prisoners Escape from Iowa jail.

Kennedy and Walker. highway rob
bers, under sentence for three years In
the penitentiary, and a burglar named
Morris, sawed hinges from the cage
door in the county jail Thursday a d
escaped by rushing past an attendant
at Muscatine, Iowa. Morris was cap
tured and his sentence passed Thurs
day evening, is for five years. The
highwaymen escaped.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
PICKING COAL FROM SLATE BANKS FRENCHTOwN. PA
Work of Bankers Meeting.

Thursdays session of the American
Bankers association at Richmond, Va,
was devoted largely to hearing
papers read Charles A. Conant of the
New York Journal of Commerce read
the first paper. 1t was on the finan-
cial future of the United States. Alfred
c. Barnes followed him on Internal
Revenue Laws" Other papers were
read by James Pollard of Fort Madi-
son, Iowa, and George Hague of Can
ada.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
Rich Gold lind In Australia-

a newspaper received at Victoria. B.
c., from Sydney. \. S. w, says SEN
sational gold discovery has been made
at Long Flat, near Gundagai. N. S.
-. Pieces of gold covered with oxide
or iron have been found, many pieces
pound troy.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
Town Hank Robbed of 81 900.

Burglars entered the bank at Elk
port, iowa, blew open the safe
with nitroglycerin and secured
81 900 IN currency and some valuable
papers. The robbers escaped TO the
woods. The bank is owned by A. c.
Tiede & Co.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12

A mortal duel was fought at Paris
Thursday between Joseph Marlier, a
city councilman, and Due Ferette
Deputy Marlier was wounded and d.ek
an hour later.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
italy Protests to America.

lie Journal of Paris publishes dis
patch from it's Rome correspondent
saying that the Italian government has
sent to Washington a protest aga nst
the excessive liberty" accorded to
anarchists in the United States.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12

Grave business men, armed with
broom and shovel, started crusade
for cleanliness by removing the dirt
from Main street, Kenosha, Wis. City
officials took the hint and had the dirt
hauled away.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12
Largo Shoe Factory burned.

Wednesday fire broke out In the
large shoe factory of J. E. Dayton &
Co. The plant was total loss. The
factory and contents are valued at
$500, 600, partly covered by insurance.
Adjoining property was in imminent
danger of being burned.
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-10-12

was prepared. the negro bound to 1t
with chains and the fire was started.
After the negro's body had been con-
sumed the crowd quietly dispersed.