Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-06
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Charleston exposition preliminary to
the formal opening Monday afternoon.
Syndicate of Chicago men bought six
gold mines at Idaho Springs, Colo, for
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Company incorporated az Baltimore
TO make whisky out of Watermelons.
The whisky will be made from the ripe
fruit in the summer and in the winter
from the seeds. The water used will
be furnished from the fruit itself.
Fifty-seyenth congress convened at
noon Monday.
Fleet of twenty-seven steamships
owned by Samuel & Co. Of England re-
ported sold to American interests for
$40,000,G00 Eastern oil properties in
cluded in the deal.
Fall in price of silver sent gold to
a premium at Manila. Spectators i'm
porting Mexican silver from Hong
kong to take advantage OF the situa-
ton.
Butler demonstration given at Hyde
Park, London, but most of the 100000
persons present were attracted by
NoAAOoANJ NGcsA AipdInS
Constantinople correspondent OF a
Vienna paper declared the dead bodies
of Miss Stone and Nine Tsilka had
been found near Dubritza
Chile and Argentine republic buying
arms and munitions of war in Ger
many. Conflict between the two coun-
tries believed to be imminent.
Russian steel and iron trust may be
formed as q result of the metallurgical
congress at Kharkoff.
King Edward and the queen to visit
Cannes this winter.
Miss Vivian Sartoris, granddaughter
Of U. S. Grant, reported engaged to
Morton Nichols.
Botfy threatens to exterminate rab-
bits on Long Island.
E. II. Hartman indicted in Orange
county, n. J., for violation of the eight
hour law by company of which he is
president.
Henry II. Terwilliger, a private
banker Of Montague, Mich, mysteri-
oCs!y disappeared, notifying his family
they might never see him again. His
financial affairs apparently in good
condition.
Deputy collector of customs OF De-
troit who examined baggage of emf
grants who were in the Wabash wreck
declared there were at least seventy
five killed at Seneca.
Farmers of Solomon county, Kan,
made arrangements to ship their sur
plus wheat direct to German consum-
ers.
Theodore Duddleston, confidential
clerk of National Stock Yards bank of
East st. Louis, embezzled $4,000.
Automatic telephone exchange in
vented and successfully operated by
Baltimore inventor.
Fifteen foremen of the Carnegie
works at Pittsburg given $4,000
worth Of company bonds.
Connecticut Law and Order league
began movement to stop prizeighting
in that state.
Calve found a child in Los Angeles
with remarkably fine voice.
Col. John n. Partridge, superintsn-
dent of public works for the state of
New York, appointed police commits
sioner by MayOr-Elect Low
American Baseball association COM
pleted its organization, with clubs at
indianapolis, Milwaukee, ST. Paul, Co
lumbus, Toledo. Minneapolis, Omaha,
and Kansas City.
Herr Wolf, leader of the Pan-Ger-
man party in the Austrian reichsrath,
forced out OF public life by a scandal.
Crisis approaching in Venezuela be-
cause OF governments disregard for
rights of Americans and Germans
Mrs. Bonine's confession telling of
the shooting of Ayres read to the jury
She may testify in her own behalf.
Army officers incensed at barbaric
methods of warfare adopted by Fill
pino insurgents.
Fifteen persons drowned by the cap
sizing of launch in New Caledonia.
Transport Wright, formerly a hos
pital boat, struck a reef in Lamon bay,
island of Samar, and sank In shallow
water.
Minister and Mrs. Mccormick OBJ
served Thanksgiving day in Vienna by
holding a reception
Young Corbett knocked out Terry
McGovern in the second round of their
fight at Hartford, Conn, by a clean
cut blow on the point of the chin.
Fighting fierce in both rounds.
Mrs. Fred Gerhard, who recently Sc
cured divorce from her husband in
South Dakota, married Henry Clews,
Jr, son Of the New York financier.
John Kraus, a tobacconist of Tren-
ton, N. j., killed by an employee, whose
wife revealed the crime Caused by
quarrel over wages.
Victims of the Wabash wreck at
Seneca, Mich, now believed to num-
Der eighty, although the officials of the
road declare not more than twenty
were killed. Coroner's jury impaneled
at Adrian to investigate the disaster.
Governor of Oregon informed Gov
ernor Van SAINT his state has no laws
regulating combination Of railroads.
Woman who died at Lake Junction,
Wis, left $4,000 hidden in various
places in her house.
Miss Stone declared to be alive on
Nov. "a. Rumor of her death discred-
tied.
Secretary Root, in his forthcoming
annual report, will suggest the forma-
ton OF thoroughly drilled army officers
and reserves in order to avoid all con-