Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-03-09
A WEEK In INDIANA.
RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR
SEVEN DAYS.
EIoped to JsfrersonvilIe The Parents
Objected To Marriage with Powder
Mill Man-SIot Machines Barred at
Anderson.

Mill man-sIot Machines Barred at
Anderson.
Jeffersonville telegram: Because Err
nest Mills OF Kings Mills. Ohiy. was
employed in a powder mill the par
ents of pretty BERTHE Drake. a sixteen
year old miss, objected TO his atten-
tiCns and caused the couple 10 elOpc
to this city. Arriving here last night.
they We're married by Justice Nixon
after other troubles had been sur
mounted. The bridegroom is amply
old enough TO assume the response
biiities OF married life, but he could
find no one to make affidavit that his
fanoee was OF legal age. The tele-
graph wire was put into use AMI Mills
asked Mr. Drake for his daughters
hand by that method. 4 reply came
hack, giving the desired consent. and
begging the two TO hurry home for
forgiveness.
The brides father is wealthy bust
ness man, and when the girl told her
mother she was going TO elope with
Mills. Mrs. Drake reported that she
would tell her father and hurried TO
the store for that purpose Drake was
busy with customer and the lovers
managed to catch a train before h.
was informed. Tie sole objection was
that be was working in the powder
mill and might leave his widow any
time. 4 more stylish-lOOl5ing couple
has never reached JeffersOnYille.
Slot Machine. Barred.
Anderson special: PatrOlmen Wis
tied all saloons last night. where
slot machines were in use. and or
! dered the machines removed by March
l. Most OF the salOoukeepers are GLAD
to get rid Of the machines. They re-
port that the devices are Of no mate
rial benefit To places where they are
| kept
State Items.
Miss Mabel Grace Drake OF Rive:
Park. a suburb of Mishawaka. disap-
peared from home. Yesterday the
police chief OF Mishawaka received a
telegram that she had been found al
Paw Paw, Mich. dressed in male at
tire. She will be returned to me-
| friends.
George Mayheld and Claude Merri-
weather, attached to the Gentzen art
| glass works at Anderson were both
severely injured by an explosion while
mixing preparation for staining
glass, which included nitric acid. nj
trate OF silver and ammonia.
The Pastime club OF Vincennes cele-
brated the l21st anniversary Of the
capture Of the Nincennes post by Gen
George Rogers Clark with addresses
| by the Hon Mason J. Niblack and the
Hon. James NJ Emison.
a Cass county farmer blasted
stumps in field and left some of tn
dynamite where his cattle could get it.
The herd devoured the explosive, two
Of them died, and the others were
saved with difficulty
During one Of the cold nights a Wa
bash man heated two fat irons ana
| took them TO bed with him. The bea
caught fire and the sleepers feet were
burned. The irons were thrown out
| of doors to cool.
The druggists and confectioners OF
Fort Wayne have agreed TO raise the
price of summer drinks. Plain soda
water will cost ) cents glass: ice
cream soda, cents; crushed fruit
soda. 10 cents
An Evansville negro went to sleep
in rocking chair near a stove. The
chair caught fire. the rockers and legs
being burned off, but the sleeper did
not find il out until he was dumped
On the floor
The estate of the late Mrs. Eleanor
Scott of Richmond has been divided
| according TO requests. $4,000 to the
missionary societies of the Presbyteri-
| an and Methodist churches and $40.
geo TO heirs.
South Bend did not get the national
prohibition or the state democratic
conventions. but the people are salts
fed with the advertisement that came
from their efforts to secure the meet
ings.
w. c. Brandenburg, superintendent
Of the Veedersburg schools. has been
arrested on charge Of asSaulting Fred
Osborn, a pupil who had violated
school rule
The Sanitariums OF Martinsvlle
have been we'll patronized through the
winter, and the city is claiming TO be
q cold-weather as well as a summer
resort.
The Bachner Timepiece company OF
Princeton will, when II gets its fac
tory in full operation, turn out a new
clock every minute during working
day
A. n. Clifford. manager OF the Ell
wood ball club last year. has been ar
rested for failure 10 pay his govern
ment exhibition tax On ball games.
The drinking water at Evansville
has reached the condition where il
can be cut into blocks and stored in
cellar in anticipation OF a drouth
Quinton Broadstreet and Mrs. Mar
garet j. Walters OF Greencastle. who
were married in January. kept the
wedding q secret until this week.
William Harness, IS years old. OF
Carroll county. is said TO have offered
! nd ho