Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-03-02
MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
Items of General Interest Told in
Paragraphs.
COMPLETE NEWS SUM MARY.
Record of Happenings of Much or Little
Importance from All Parts of tho
Civilized world-Prices of Farm Pro-
duce I'm Western Markets.

queen NlcLOTld anu I6SeulS the AAouAs
of the French pretender.
Russia sends warship to Bandar
Abbas, on the Persian gulf. Britain
sends one after it.
French papers violently attack the
American government for Yankee in
trigues" in Martinique.
One woman lost her life and several
girls were injured in fire in Philadei-
phia.
Col. Parker proposes that Filipinos.
Cubans and Indians be educated free
at the Chicago institute.
Colored workingmen OF Chicago
formed a council of the National Fed
Grafton of Labor for ColOred Men, and
will fight other labor organizations.
Gen. Anderson denies that American
authorities promised independence to
the FilipinOS.
William J. Bryan and Arthur Sewall
held a secret conference in Georgia
Friday.
Joe Walcott, the colored welter
weight, stopped Joe Choynski in the
seventh round in New York Friday.
The Allan line steamship California
stranded on rock near Portland, Me-,
Sunday morning.
Building Material council OF Chicago
has ordered all unions affiliated to pro-
hibit their men from working in yards
or mills supplying non-union build
ers-
Lyman f. Cooley says the Chicago
rivers condition will have to be rad
ically changed to protect navigation
interests, and blames the sanitary truS-
tees.
Lycurgus Latin, old Chicagoan, died
at Old Point Comfort Sunday.
The American league has at last an
nounced that it will pat baseball club
in Chicago.
Austrian paper says coloniol expan-
sion will force CONSUMPTION on the
United States.
The German government was defeat
ed in the reichstag By q large majority
Wednesday.
Seventeen persons were hurt in a
wreck on the Wisconsin Central near
Curtis, Wis
The magazine Of the Reader Stone
company. at the quarTies of the COM
pany on Fairmont road. in East Cleye-
land, Ohio. blew up Monday. destroy
ing the office Of the company and ia
tally injuring Irwin Reader. son of the
proprietor. and seriously injuring Muir
ply, driiler.
Excitement continues around Elk
City. Idaho. over the rich gold strikes.
Soldiers fire on strikers at Francois.
Martinique, killing eight, mortally
wounding five and injuring eleven.
The snowfall in Chicago Saturday
night and Sunday was so great as to
cause partial suspension of street car
traffic.
Patrick Grove. suspected Of being
implicated in the daring Northwestern
train robbery between Maple Park and
DeKalk on the night of Oct. -, was
arrested Monday afternoon in Chicago
and has been spirited away by the po-
lice. The place OF his confinement is
kept secret.
Won Bulow is said to be the proba BILE
successor of Hohenlohe as chancellor
OF the German empire.
Norwegian and German sailing ship
owners may start line to- run from
Chicago through the Canadian canal
Sentiment In Paris Is still strongly
pro-Boer and some predict British de-
feat
The black plague has appeared IN
two more islands of the Hawaiian
group. Eight deaths are reported
President Jacob Gould Schurman OF
Cornell university addressed large
audience at the Auditorium in favor
CT expansion Thursday in Chicago.
Senator Mason and others addressed
an audience of 1900 at a pro-Boer
meeting in Tattersalls in Chicago
Thursday night and raised $500 for
the Beer cause.
Plans have been completed for a
three-story building for the Chicago in
stitute, or Blaine Normal school. in
North Park avenue.
A crowd Of boys pelted a British flag
hanging before the residence of Consul
Wyndham in Chicago Thursday and
was dispersed by the police.
Chinese Minister WI in a speech at
the University of Pennsylvania Thurs
day said Washington's policy of JUS
tice and the Monroe doctrine will win
the orient for America
Sentiment of the democratic national
committee favors Judge Caldwell for
BTyan's running mate
A new Vanderbilt railroad line be-
tween Pittsburg and Chicago Is said
TO be assured.
Treasury department officials say
currency has increased 2i5 per cent.
since 1879. and that the per capita
amount is now s26.
Plans to celebrate Washington's
birthday In Chicago. it is said. surpass
any program in former years.
The populist national convention
will meet at Sioux Falls. s. d.. May 9.
John Roots manager has issued a
sweeping challenge to all middle
weights. Mccoy and Ryan preferred.
Specie shipments from Chicago dur
ing the month of February have aver
aged $4,000 a day, an increase of 20
per cent. over February, 1892
Benjamin Wood, proprietor of the
New York Daily News, died at the
Fifth Avenue hotel Wednesday of
Bright's disease.
Ohio Town Postonice Robbed.
The postoffice at White House, Ohio.
was robbed wednesday morning and