Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-20

Mrs. Marion Gibler of Huntington
several months ago was kicked by F
horse which was frightened by pass
ing automobile, and she is lying at the
point of death. Attorneys have been
retained looking TO a damage suit
against the automobile driver. claiming
that he did not use proper precautions. /
The Daily Republican at Bedford has
temporarily suspended publication, and +
the plant may be leased by Dade Rob
erts. formerly city editor. The Repub
lican is owned by Lee L. Robinson.
formerly of Jacksonville. and Mayor
d. Y Johnson of Bedford The sus-
pension will have no effect on the
weekly publication.
James Mortimer and ten other farm
ers have been swindled at Winamac
by signing supposed hunters permits,
which afterward turned up as promis-
sorry notes calling for $500 each Two
men called on Farmer Mortimer and
asked permission to hunt on the farm
er's lands. and paid S. for a hunters
permit This permit later turned up
in the form of promissory note call
ing for $500
Three saloons. barber shop. two
restaurants. drug store, a dwelling
and five other business blocks were
burned 10 the ground at South Bend.
The fire was started by thieves, whose
object was 10 rob other parts of the
city while residents were at the fire.
The loss is 100000
4 woman threw herself out of the
window of a Baltimore L. Ohio emf
grant train as it passed through Whit
ing Her throat was cut from ear 10
ear. yet she managed to walk nearly
half a mile east before she Was dis
covered by a section foreman. Medi-
/ cal aid was summoned but aid came
: too late It was learned that she was
Swede and that her husband and
three boys were still on the train and
had not missed her 1t appears that
she had gone into the toilet room. af-
ter first requesting her son TO give her
sharp knife which he carried. The
body lies at Whiting. awaiting orders
from the Baltimore & Ohio officials.
The Muncie health authorities and
officers were called TO Yorktown to en-
deayor TO make children attend school.
The case OF smallpox last week caused
the school attendance TO drop off -
per cent. ana patrons refused TO send
! their children to school when ordered
to do so by the health and truant Of
ficers. They assert that no force can
make their children attend Serious
trouble is promised if the officers in
sist on enforcing the laws.
Arthur Goble. who shot his father
Saturday afternoon and then fired d
bullet into his own brain. is dead at
Lebanon and his body will be forward
ed to Charleston. H., for burial The
elder Goble will recover The 80 80,
I Went 10 Lebanon :::-;c;::i.ii Mendoza. va
two years ago.
Thomas Nolan, aged IS. accidentally
fell into fly wheel pit at the White
ley malieable iron works at Muncie.
coming in contact with the wheel.
which was running 800 revolutions a
minute. Both arms were torn off
and his face and head We're crushed.
He will die
Mrs. Or. Rush. wife of an osetopath,
with rooms in the Pixiey Long block
at Fort Wayne has found her dia-
monds. worth 81 0C0. which she had
reported TO the police as lost She
missed them on Monday and the pO-
lice have been at work running down
clues. Another search OF her rooms
by the worried woman on Wednesday
resulted in her finding them in a suit
of tights which she had thrown into
the laundry basket in the closet
The University Extension Society of
Rochester is holding very successful
series of meetings at which papers on
the trend of modern thought are earn
estly discussed
The Kankakee Valley Medical So
ciety has just closed very success
ful meeting at Rochester The next
session will be held in May at Knox
! Among others. papers were read by
DR.. +. 4. Borton of Plymouth. d.. y.
w. Cady. Logansport, and Dr. c. J.
| Loring. Rochester
The Covington city council has
| granted to the Fountain & Warren
| Traction company a franchise to use
Johnson street for thirty-fve years
\ condition is that the company shall
continue its line at least eight miles
east of the city. The use of the grade
in the Wabash bottoms is not allowed
The company will apply to the county
commissioners for the use of the
bridge spanning the Wabash at this
point The line will extend 10 Dan
vile. H.
Mischievous boys are footing and
damaging rural free delivery boxes
in the neighborhood of Nashville.
Farmers are very much wrought up
over the depredations.
John Shafer. aged u. of Gibson
county. was instantly killed near
Owensvile Tuesday afternoon by fall
ing under a wagon loaded with lum-
Der
Thomas Wood. Sunday school organ
iZer for Dearborn and Ripley counties
and Harry Wood hotel proprietor and
his son. were arraigned before Squire
John Garfield at Mooreshill. because
of immoral conduct with young girls.
and both were remanGed for grand jury
action; the father depositing cash bail