Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-27

destroyed small house on the county
poor farm at Lebanon Monday morn
ing superintendent Young discovered
the fire in time to rescue two epileptic
women inmates. The loss is consid-
cradle. with no insurance BY hard
work the main building was saved
English capitalists viii establish
vehicle factory at Gynneville
Judge Rawley OF Terre Haute dis
charged Ace Biggs. aged Is. who was
before him for shooting William koux-
ton. KouXton went 10 physician
with a bullet in his arm and said ne
had been shot by some one as he went
along the Big -Four road The police
investigated and KOuXtOn confessed
that he had been shot at the home of
Colt by her son. young Biggs. KouX-
Mrs. Colt by her son Biggs. Koux-
ton had gone to the house 10 demand
the return of presents he had given TO
Mrs. Colt and had knocked the woman
down. when the boy seized a rife and
shot him. Judge Rawlcy fined Koux-
ton S25 for assault and battery and said
the boy who shot HIM deserved praise
instead of court penalty.
The celebrated Moreli will case
which threatened to run through a long
and costly course of litigation at Wa
bash. has been settled. The attorneys
got together and arranged the compro-
mise. which virtually pronOunces the
will in question bogus Mrs Morell
the widow who wins the case. pays all
attorneys fees. amounting TO over ST.
000 and all costs aggregating over
$500 The claimant gets nothing The
estate is worth $4,000
The kOkomo Rod and Wire Nail
Company. watch is capitalized at 81
00000. is moving rapidly in the con
structiOn OF its mammoth plant at Ko-
kOmO. The estimated cast OF con
structiOn and equipment Is $3.50 coo
The principal engine. costing the com
pany $4,000 is now being set Il is
expected that the wire and nail de-
partments will be ready 10 operate by
the middle Of February The rod de-
partment will be constructed entirely
of steel. and when the mill is COM
pleted II will cover fifteen acres With
in six months il is expected that 900
men viii he employed.
Young Jacob Stoltz pleaded guilty at
LOgansport to having attempted TO
wreck the Wabash Atlantic express and
was bound over 10 the circuit court.
Neither of his parents appeared with
him in court. StOitz is l3 years Of age
and placed a brake shoe and stone in
the frog OF the track over a high en-
bankment but hand car happened
along first and took the trip downhill
that was intended for the heavily
loaded and swiftly running passenger
/ train
\ would-be incendiary placed cot
ton saturated with coal oil inside a
shutter OF the factory OF the Garden
| City Stationary Company at Elkhart
but the cotton fell to the ground and
was eXtinguished by the snow Re
Gently the home of the manager, c. II.
Wright. was damaged $500 by in
/ cendiariSm.
Joseph Sands. labOrer. attempted
TO cross the Eel river bridge. near
Laketon. in trent of an approaching
locomotive, attached to a pay car on
/ the Chicago & Erie line. thinking it
would stop for his fellow l2borers. and
/ he was struck and hurled into the
river. where he drowned before as
/ siStance could be rendered. He was
forty years old and man of family
The new Christian church at Pine
/ Village has been dedicated by the Rev.
LII Carpenter OF Wabash. All in
! debtedneSS was lifted.
John w. Winship of Vincennes
forty-three years old. and Mrs. l.. G.
Percefied have been united in mar
! riage 1t is the sixth venture in mat
rimony for the bridegroom, all the
! other wives being dead.
Editor r. f. Purcell. of the Vincen-
mes Sun, has been awarded first prize
! for the best descriptive story of CO.
! lumbus by members Of the Southern
Indiana Press Association t25). while
second prize (Sl0) was given to f. \.
Remy. of the Seymour Republican.
Charles w Gearhart working in q
! sawmill at South Bend. caught his coat
! on setscrew and was whirled to his
| death. Last February ne dreamed that
he would be killed in this manner. and
nothing could shake his belief but what
the dream would come true
John Is. Livery. a Wabash switch
man. was crushed to death under an
engine at Peru. His wife resides al
Danville, III.
Physical Director Dubridge of the
Terre Haute Y. NJ. c. A., has asked the
Paris (lll.) association for game OF
basket ball between teams from the
association of the two cities. There
are more than fifty names on the list
of membership of the Terre Haute as
ISOLATION for basket ball players. Six
captains will be elected for six teams
! TO play in the Terrc Haute rooms. and
| the prospect is good for series of
| championship games during the winter.
Two score and more of Tr-State
| Normal College students and an equal
number OF Angola boys between whom
much bitterness had sprung up. met in
the streets of Angola and fought ii
out number on both sides being Sc
verely bruised. The belligerents
finally hauled of on their own account.
| the authorities not interfering
The Rev l.. w. Applegate of Ken
dallville, has resigned as financial sec
rotary of the northern Indiana Episco-