Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-27
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E INDIANA STATE NEWS :.


has accepted call to the pastorate
OF the First Christian church at
Greensburg He will enter upon his
duties the first of the year. He has
resigned the position OF financial see
rotary of Butler Bible College and the
Rev. Z. F. Sweeney of Columbus has
been chosen To fill the vacancy
Mrs. Caroline Hass. the burial of
whose body occurred at Albion. was
born in Germany in 1891. coming to
America ten years ago
Much loss has been sustained by
business houses at Fort Wayne during
the cold wave by the bursting of water
pipes and the flooding of valuable
stock
Frederick Bell son of John D. Bell
of Terre Haute. is revisiting his par
ents. after a absence of sixteen years
in Honduras He brought with him
a Honduran boy. whom he will edu
cate.
The last fire at LoOgoOtee started in
Whites restaurant. spread rapidly, de
strOying J. p Arvin & Bro. ) grocery
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barber shop. George Arvin's saloon and
Charley Trainor's meat shop. Total
loss $4,000
Daniel Sheets. whose death occurred
at Mooresville, was born in Virginia
in 1925 settling in this country in 1896.
He engaged in the mercantile business
for forty years, and was one of the
organizers OF the Farmers Bank of
MOOresville
The burial of the late D. w Mar
shall was held at Terre Haute. Ser
vices were conducted by the Rev Dr.
Jesse Bowman Young of the Walnut
Hills NJ f. church. of Cincinnati as
sisted by Chancellor Hickman. OF De
PAW University
James Burns. saloon keeper at Lo-
gansport. who was sandbagged last
Friday. died remaining unconscious TO
the last although he occasionally NUT
tered Don't hit me" There is no clew
TO the identity of his assaiant
Jacob Barrett. near GAINESVILLE. who
was chopping timber in his woods. not
returning home when expected, led 10
an Investigation. which found his dead
body beside a tree which had been cut
down. his AK across his legs. Death
| is attributed TO heart trouble
William Blockley. aged 30. dying Of
incurable disease, was carried TO the
court room in Evansville. that he
might be given a divorce from his wife
who abandoned him some weeks ago.
| BlOckley carries life insurance which
he has changed so that d friend may
| inherit it,
Robert r. Shirley. who has success
| fully operated a small shoe factory at
Washington has interested Cincinnati
capital, which employs 300 persons in
the same business. and the factory will
be enlarged 1t is proposed to form
a company with $4,000 capital stock.
of which S25 600 shall be placed in that
city.
Mrs Nellie Mcdowell, en- route home
| to Princeton from st. Louis. stopped
in Brazil. called a carriage and drove
| to Diamond, where she found her g.
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previously Kidnapped by her husband
| from whom she has separated. Catch
! ing an electric ear. she went To Tcrre
| Haute and was soon homeward bound.
Two trained nurses were employed
at the home of Carson Hamil of Terre
I1aute during the severe illness of his
| little daughter. and soon Il number of
valuable articles. including the setting
of diamond were missing. After
the dismissal of the nurses. suspicion
fell on Mrs. Pearl Phnney, and upon
being confronted by Mr.. Hamill she
confessed the theft and restored many
things taken portion of the goods
had been burned
The Indiana Lead Glass Company at
Matthews has been compelled to close
fourteen of its thirty shops on account
of the scarcity of houses in the town
causing a scarcity of men. Four-room
houses readily rent for SD a month.
In some houses two or more families
live huddled together. not from choice.
but Of necessity. The men make from
81 to So per day in the factories.
The recent storm and intense cold
weather had disastrous effect on
quail and small birds. The ground
was covered with n thick coating of ice
before the snow fell. and this precents
the birds from burrowing down to the
dry earth on which they are able to
| find a spot to warm with their bodies.
| They fly about constantly on the move.
| and after a time succumb to the cold
and hunger. Hundreds of the birds
have been found in the snow
Miss Viola Doyle, a beautiful young
| girl of Is, was taken to st. Joseph S
Hospital at Fort Wayne. suffering from
intestinal trouble. When the surgeons
decided to operate young man to
whom she was to have been. married in
few days became SO violent in op-
position that he had to be put under
restraint. The girl died on the table
and he is nearly crazed with grief.
| George ID. Demaree. twenty years a
retail grocer at Madison. has filed "a
petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities $4
300. with So 900 and no preferred credi-
| tors.
| The secretary of the Wabash Car
negie Library Association has received
$4,000 from Carnegie, the first install
ment of the $4,000 donation to the
Carnegie Library here
The Rev. w. A. Littel pastor for
three years of the United Presbyterian