Verdict For Damages

Kalamazoo, May 30. - The case of Robert Walker, as adininistrator, vs. the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern has been settled in the circuit court, the jury rendering a verdict of S7.00C for the plaintiff. Tb.8 suit was brought for 15,0u0 daniages for the widow of John Walker, who was killed in April, 1898, while cutting a wire belonging to the Citizen's Street Railway company. The Lake Shore company had tried to prevent the line from crossing their tracks, and af ter the wire was put up Walker was directed to cut it down. He stood on a stepladder placed on the top of a boxear and when the wire parted he feil to the ground and was killed.