Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 11, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 February 1899 — Page 2

THE WEEKLY HiDEPEIlDEIIT.

C W. METSKER, Pub. and Prop. rLYMOUTH, - INDIANA, 115 IDJpif IS Minor Happenings of the Past ' Week. EVENTS OF LAST SEVEN DAYS. I'otltira!. KeWglou. Sorial ami Criminal Höings of the Whole WorM Carefully Condensed for Onr Headers The Act ident Kt'roril. a.-on City, Iowa. L. Ii. Bone, the murderer of James Alison, v.as ar-re.su-d at the home of his father-in-law. A. J. Talberg. He expresses no regiei for slaying the victim. Toledo. O. Mrs. George R. Lucas, aged '22 years, died from the effects of i.ry(-hiiin poisoning. Her husband says it was an accident. The coroner will conduct a rigid investigation. Leominster, Mass. The Leominster Shirt company has made an assignment to 1). Curtis Xiekerson. The liabilities are $1.0.o00, the heaviest creditors being New York parties. New York Mrs. Eugene Kelly, widow of the late Eugene Kelly, died at her home in this city. Menomonio, Wis. Fire destroyed the Catholic church of this city. It is sunoed to have originated from the furnace in the basement, and veiy little was saved from the interior. The building cost about $15,000, while the insurance is but $6,500. Evansille. Ind. John Gutenberg, a lineal descendant of Gutenberg, the inventor of the art of printing, died here. He v.as 47 yeais old. Wichita. Kas. The jury in the Shea murder case has returned a verdict of murder in the second degree. She was tried for killing Edward Dawson, a noted crook, last July. Madrid A high authority estimates that the next Spanish budget will show a deficit of 323.0o0.000 pesetas. Stamping Ground, Ky. Fire destroyed G. G. Carl & Co.'s furniture store, George Duvall's grocery, the large warehouse of A. Ford, Dr. C. Lewis drug store and the postoffice. Lcndon The Standard's Berlin correspondent says that no request from America for the recall of the German officials in Samoa has been received in Berlin, and that none is expected. Burkettville. Maine Albert Heysler, who murdered his wife and stepson, died from the effects of the paris green he had taken with suicidal intent. Philadelphia. Pa. Luther Chapin, founder of the order of United American Mechanics, died at his home. He was S3 years old. His organization of the first iodge followed the native American riots of 1844. Taeoma, Wash. The steamer Olympia, about to sail for Manila, has an unusual cargo in the form of 350,000 American-made cigarettes. Boston. Mass. In regard to the order of the navy department prohibiting the sale of beer on ships of the navy. Secretary Long said the order was issued principally for the protection of the apprentice boys in the service and to remove temptation from the men. Washington It is officially announced that the Mexican government has decided to offer a big subsidy for a railroad across the Sierra Madre iange from Chuichupa, in the state of Chihuahua, to Huisopa, on the Sonora line. San Francisco. The United States refrigerator steamer Celtic sailed for Manila via Honolulu. She carried a large amount of supplies for the United States forces. Butler, Ind. Farmers all over this section complain of damage to the wheat crop by the cold weather. Vienna. The ministry had decided to resign after the adjournment of the parliamentary session. Nashville, 111. The prospects for a large wheat crop throughout this entire section of the state are excellent. Havana Two American soldiers have been arrested on a charge of having stabbed to death Private McDonald, company B, Tenth regulars, who was at first supposed to have been I.iMed by Cubans. Newburg, Ind. In a saloon fight John Lumdson drew a revolver and shot Frank Shepard in the right thigh. Frank Shepard's father interfered and Lumdson sent a bulet into the old man's head, inflicting a fatal wound. Toledo, O. Vincent Saibenski deliberately fired a reviover into a crowd of small boys, killing Stephen Bloshoski and seriously wounding two others. Cumming's Station, N. Y. Delaware and Hudson traiD No. 4 was derailed. The engine turned over and the engineer, W. S. Combs, and a little boy 10 years old were killed. Stockholm Last week 3,194 cases of influenza were reported here. The disease was fatal in 229 cases. Montreal Mr. Luna of the Filipino delegation has departed from Montreal for Liverpool. He sailed from St. John, N. B . cn the steamer Numidian. Corner Stone, Ark. Silas Jones and his six children were burned to death cn a plantation. Mrs. Jones was away for tLf night and thus escaped. Janesville, Wis. Allen Eugene Rich, a retired business man, fell dead at his Lome. Havana The order recently issued by Gen. Brooke, military governor of Cuba, reducing official salaries in San tiago de Cuba 20 per cent, has been J ccuntf rrn'Sided. i

MISCELLANEOUS. Wabash, Ind. At Lake Wawasee the Lake View hotel is being moved two .miles across the ice on the lake, skids being used. Mayfield, Ky. Gov. Bradley has respited the death sentence of Robert Blanks until March 18. Blanks is suffering with smallpox. Newport News. Va. Collis P. Huntington has telegraphed W. A. Post to draw on his for $1,000 to relieve the suffering of poor here. Metropolis. 111. Robert Cole and wife, two old residents of this town, died ami were buried in the same giave. Cole was a cousin of Frank :va Jesse James. Indianapolis. Ind. A $o.u0o.o0 mortgage on the property of the Central Union Telegraph company in Indiana has been placed on record in sixty counties. Areola. 111. Frank Smith, who said his home was in Chicago, and who was found a few days ago in a dying condition under a hedge fence in the western part of the city, is dead. Washington Representative Cranford of Texas is very ill at the Providence hospital. He is suffering from a complication of diseases which the doctors have been unable to cure. Boston, Mass. The annual conference of the National Association of American Rabbis, which was to have met Ma rcii 13. has been transferred to Cincinnati on th2 same date. It will continue one week. This change was made because the birthday anniversary of Rabbi Wise of Cincinnati, its president, falls on March 14. Kokomo, Ind. Four children of Jesse Hancock, four miles north of here, were attacked simultaneously with measles. diphtheria and scarlet fever, each of them having all three diseases at the same time. Daisy, a 14-year-old daughter, is dead. Washington The United States gunboat Piinceton. from New York, Jan. 11, for Manila, has arrived at Suez. Scituate, N. Y. The failure of Byron L. Steere, surviving partner of A. Steere & Sons of the Rockland mill, is announced. The liabilities are $230,000; assets estimated at $23.525. Salinas, Cal. Parito, believed to be the oldest Yaqui Indian in California, is dead. He was 10S years old. Bellefontaine. Ohio Judge Thomas Mittenberger was found dead in his bed and his wife in an unconscious condition, from which she cannot recover. Escaping gas from a broken fixture was the cause. Marquette, Mich. Assignees of J. M. Wilkinson's estate have leased to Andrew Carnegie the Michigan iron mining property on the Menominee range. Kansas City, Mo. An oyster famine is the result of the unexpected blizzard in the south and east. Local oyster dealers are practically bare of supplies. Cobden, 111. Capt. George Owens, chairman of the Union county republican committee and vice president of the Union County Soldiers and Sailors' Association, died, aged C2 years. Washington. The president nominated Ernest P. Goodrich of Michigan, Leonard M. Cox of Kentucky, and Alfred C. Lewerenz of Michigan to be civil engineers in the navy. Columbus, Ind. Frank Nolting, a grocer, swallowed his false teeth asleep and was unconscious and nearly dead when discovered by his wife. Piper City, lib The Rev. William B. Allison of the Presbyterian churC.i here has resigned to accept the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Dement. Fairbury, 111. The Livingston county farmers' institute held a two days' session here. LATEST MARKET REPORT. CHICAGO. Cattle all grades $1.C0 CIO Hogs, common to prime-. 1.40 3.97Va Sheep and lambs 2.10 5.00 Wheat. No. 2 red 72!4 .73 Corn, No. 2 33 .36 Oats, No. 2 white .2SÜ Eggs 21 .22 Butter H4 .21 Rye, No. 2 53 .55-74 ST. LOUIS. Wheat, No. 2 .74 V2 Oats, No. 2 cash .2$y2 Corn, No. 2 cash .341;, Cattle, all grades 2.C0 ßG.OO Hogs 3.C3 3.79& Sheep and lambs 2.23 5.25 TOLEDO. Wheat, No. 2 cash .731. Corn, No. 2 mixed .36 Oats, No. 2 mixed .29 Rye, No. 2 cash .57 Cloversecd, prime cash. 3.S0 KANSAS CITY. Cattle, all grades 2.35 3.75 Hogs, all grades 3.45 3.80 Sheep and lambs 2.23 5.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat, No. 1 northern.. .73 Oats, No. 2 white Z0'27p .31U Barley, No. 2 51 .51 V NEW YORK. Wheat. No. 2 red .84V4 Corn, No. 2 44 .45 Oats, No. 2 .35 PEORIA. Oats. N.-. 2 white 29 .30 Corn, No. 2 3214 .32 Speaker ICenl Afar Kt'r. It is said Speaker Reed will withdraw from politics and form a partnership with a Portland lawyer and open an office in New York. Appointment for AVtMonsIu Man. Horace A. Taylor of Madison, Wis., editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, ; is to be appointed assistant secretary , i t the treasury. Jsiore Neeroe wt I 'arm. Another large company of negroes arrived from St. Louis to work in tho I mines at Pana, 111.

D! Week's Proceedings in the House and Senate. TO PAY SPAIN THE $20,000.000. ?.!r. Cannon, Cli:iim::i n of the Appropriation Committee, I nt ruiliir-s the M',inrc NU rami in Canal Project Wins j Victory in tlie Senate. Wednesday, Fe! J The house settled the fate of tl.: Nicaragua canal bill in ihis vong:s by refusing to override the dc ;i-io:: of the chair in committee of the vhoio. when the chair heM that the canal i.i'.l offered as an amendment by Mr. Hepbarn we s out of order. In the senate a hill authorizing the president to appoint as cadet at the naval academy Osbom W. Dcipnan was reported and passed. The po.-tcfflcv appcropriation hill was reported and went over. The senate went Into executive session at 12: 3- o'clock. The rioois were reopened at 4:40 o'clock and Mr. Carter (rep.. Mont.), from the committee on territories, reported back the house hiil establishing a criminal code for Alaska. The rest of t!;e day was spent in its discussion. Tliurnday, Feb. 1 C. In the house Mr. Hepburn of Iowa, the champion of the Nicaragua canal bill, moved to recommit it with instructions to report it back with the canal bill incorporated in it. The motion was declared out of order by the speaker, whereupon Mi. Hepburn appealed, and Mr. Payne of New Yo:k moved to lay the appeal on the table. Tpon the latter motion the vote was taken, and the result was D7 yeas and 67 nays. The army reorganization bill was reported to the senate. The naval personnel bill was taken up and read, but no effort made to proceed further with Its consideration. The military academy appropriation bill was passed. The postoffice appropriation bill was tinder consideration during the greater part of the afternoon, but was not disposed of finally. Friday. Feb. 17. In the house Mr. Cannon, chairman of the committee on appropriations, introduced a bill to make the appropriation of $20,000.000 needed to carry out the treaty of peace with Spain which was ruled out of the sundry civil appropriation bill Thursday. Mr. Maxwell introduced a bill empowering the president to negotiate a treaty with Nicaragua and Costa Ri.a for the purpose of constructing a canal across

JANE B. CREICTON, FOUNDER OF THE WHITE CROSS.

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Mrs. Jane B. Creightcn, the founder aiid president of the White Cross Association, is one of the leading women of Portland, Ore., and one of the most charming and philanthropic spirits on the coast. Her purpose in organizing the White Cross was to send nurses to the Philippine Islands on the same plan as that used by the Red Cross. The new organization is national and has been recently given official recognition by the government. Besides looking out for the soldiers; in the islands the ladies of the White Cross will care for the families of the sick or wounded heroes at home. This is an added function to those of the Red Cross. Tho new organization will

Combine I a Failure. Will Kitond Oar .lurlxdlrt Ion. The California Raisin dowers' as- The administration has determined sociation has decided that the attempt rapidly to extend the jurisdiction of to combine this year is a failure. Con- the United States over the whole of tracts made will be cancelled. the Philippine group. Memorial to Myron Kced. Commander Tucker Ik III. It is proposed in Denver to establish Commander Booth-Tucker of tho a public park in that city lis a memo- Salvation Army is said to be seriously rial to the late Rev. Myron W. Km d. ill at New York. C.ooil Newa for Volunteer. Flui May Ite Transfer roil. As soon after the middle of March There is a rumor that the Cleveland as possible several regiments will be baseball club will be transferred to St. ordered home from Cuba. Louis.

the isthrcMs of Nicaragua, and $500,000 is placed ;t his disposal for the purpose of negotiating the treaty. The sundry civil bill was passed without division. The Nicaragua canal project achieved a victory in the senate in having the Hepburn bill added to the river and harbor oil! by the senate committee on commerce. Senator Turpi? from the committee on education and h:ior reported the eight-hour bill w i t h o u t recommendation. Saturday, h'elu IS. In the senate the postoffice appropriation bill was taken up. The bill wns amended by extending the franking privilege as now fixed by law to i he Hawaiian islands. The discussion of various unimportant amendments emipied the time of the senate till 4 o'clock, vhn the bill went over till Monday. Refcre resuming consideration of the postoffice appropriation bill the senate passed several minor measures. After a number of private bill had been disposed of by unanimous consent the house, in committee of the whole, pioceeded with the consideration of the naval appropriation bill. The discussion was not concluded when, at '2 o'clock, business was suspended and the house listened to eulogies upon the late Stephen A. North-wi-.y. n representative from the nineteenth district of Ohio.

FIRE LOSS, $400,000. Flumes Ka; for Fivo Hours at Fort Washington, UU. Fire, which started in the dry kilns of the Wisconsin chair factory at Port Washington. Wis., reduced that plant to ashes and raged for nearly five hours before it was put under control. The loss to the chair factory is $350,- ( 00; insured for about Pu per cent. The damage to other property is estimate! at 100,000. Honor for Gen. IJrajjjj. Veterans of the civil war in Wisconsin and neighboring states and prominent citizens, lawyers and statesmen all over the Union united in extending congratulations to Gen. Edward Stuyvesant Bragg on the seventy-second annniversary of the "little generalV natal day. Three Firemen Were Killed. While a dozen firemen were at work in the ruins of the store of the Emerson Shoe company at Philadelphia, a mass of iron and stone crashed down from the upper floors, burying the men beneath it. Three firemen were killed. .Mrs. Zachariah Chandler Dead. Mr Zachariah Chandler, widow of j the famous Michigan statesman, died I at Detroit. ultimately unite in one grand society the order of the Knights of Pythias, the Masons, Oddfellows, labor unions and Woodmen, the Federal unions and the Elks. Mrs. Creghton has associated with her in the attempt to realize this tremendous good work, Mrs. Nelson A. Miles. Mrs. Dickins, wife of Commander Dickins; Miss Middleton, daughter of the commodore, and several ladies and gentlemen connected directly or indirectly with the government. A training school will soon be established at Washington and the White Cross bids fair to rival its famous prototype. Its badge is a small white cross set in a red field, bordered by a circle of blue.

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A Week;s Record !n Ihe Senate end House. TO DISCOURAGE DIVORCES. Itill lülroilticF.i W!ii-li Will rr. vt-nt V.c marriage for Tuo Ytar .treasure for ttie fiitrmiiM tii;i of tS:e Trrri.s I..ti:! Wpdnes i.iy. 1 !. 1 l.e .rul Jl) riv;;i.i in every .o i ; 4 ; y s;;;t;:as ti:e senate. veto county and township gowium.-ut ivw all in the houi-. Alt: : aUjourn-mc-nt the republicans of li" hoüs;.- . . u caucus on the hills. i;:l ;--p..blicau members reined to ii 1 1 ' i . i "I it is believed enoush vots v.cu pledged !u pis the 1 :i:. Both hrav.c-hes suspended t'u t.:.itutional rule and pa.-si a bill creating a commission to make plans for taking p:rt in the (xposltion to be hebt at Toledo in Vj?2. A special committee in the bouse reported in favor of allowing the claim against the state of $ö.mj held " Mrs. Edwin May of Chicago. The claim is thirty-nine years old and has been before the legislature for twenty I years. Thursday, Feb. Hi. The bill which provides ih.-t tho county commissioners shall furnish a place for holding the sessions of the superior court in Lake and La pone counties at Hammond ami Michigan City respectively, and which was opposed because it was be lieved to be the first step in an effort to move the seats of county government to these cities, was passed by the senate, and now lacks only the governor's signature to become a law. The senate also passed the bill to fix the salaries of circuit anil superior judges in counties of not over 45.00:) population or J25.000.0o0 property valuation. In such counties the salaries are to be fixed at $25 for each 1.000 population. The new law will affect the salaries of the judges in the 4 second. ichth, eleventh, thirteenth, fourteenth, sixteenth, thirtieth, thiity-fourth and sixtieth judicial ciicuits. The iinti-lynching bill, providing that the sheriff shall forfeit his office in ihe event that he suffers a prisoner to be taken from his custody and lynched, was killed, and with it died the prospect of legislation along this line at the present session. The house met at night to discuss the bill providing for 2-cent railroad passenger fare. The railroad committee reported against the bill, and after a two-ho::is discussion the report was adopted by a vote of VJ to 21. an the bill was killed. Friday, Feb. 1 T. j The elections committee in the sen ate, composed of six republicans and three democrats, reported in favor of retaining Frank W. Cregor as the senator from Hancock. Rush and Madison counties. The seat was contested by Elmer E. Stoner, republican. In the house the bill providing that a divorced person shall not remarry within two years passed. The house also passed the bill abolishing the state board of sanitary commissioners and creating the office of state veterinary surgeon. A bill providing for the introduction of the Torrens land system was advanced to engrossment in the hor.se, after being so amended as to authorize the people of any country to vote en the proposition to take advantage, ol the system. The phaimae-y Pill was advanced tc third reading in the senate, after having been so amended as to permit druggists who do not hold licenses to seU patent and proprietary medicines. A Whistling Well Had F.rcnth. Bill Hall, who lives on the banks ol the Cimarron, fifty miles southwest o! Perry. Okla.. was in that town the other day. He said that about twe weeks ago he began digging a web on his place, and last Monday the diggers struck hard rock bottom as drj as punk at a depth of thirty feet. A crevasse was noticed in the rock, and the man at the bottom began to piei into it with a knife blade, when a swift current of air broke through the little hole he had made, emitting a deafening whistle. The air was fill! of sulphur gas. and the man in the well lost no time in ordering his tvrc comrades on the surface to hoist him out. The odor became so strong at the top of the well that all hands retreated. The well is whistling yet. The neighbors for miles around have been attracted to tho whistling well, which was still tooting when Mr. Hall left home last Saturday. Hall says he will let the thing whisth as long as he and the neighborhood can stand it. He believes lie has tapped a sulpha; mine. (etliiig Husband i:i Mam. Kvery Siamese girl who reaches n certain age without marrying is ticketed ami labeled and placed in a privileged class, under the spccml care o! the king, who binds himself to find :: husband for them all. His method i delightfully simple. A prisoner in -nv of the Siamese jails may gain his pardon and release by marrying o'.: o! the ineligible class. Whether bv b already married or not is not of g consequence, for in Siam it is m : necessary to draw the line at on-? wii'j

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