The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-11-24
srer arrested. Gale Smith. aged 9 xearr.

living at Wheatfeld, is charged with
sending unlawful matter through the
mails. Government officials are puzzled
as to what to do with the youth.
G. w. Post, a millionaire of Battle
Greek, Mich, was married quietly and
unexpectedly the other day to Miss Leila
Youngs, his private secretary. The bride
is twenty years younger than the bride
groom. Posts first wife obtained a di-
vorce from him two weeks before.
Explosions in sewer manholes shook
South Broadway, st. Louis, rocking
houses like an earthquake and throwing
women and children to the ground. No
body was injured and the damage was
slight. Sixteen or more iron manhole
covers were blown off the sewers
Relatives of Miss Florence Yocum,
who, with her father, HSrry G. Yocum,
was lost in the wreck of the Yocum
yacht in the Gulf of Mexico in January,
1899. began suit in st. Louis against
Martin V. Racer. administrator of the
estate. making allegations of fraud.
In the Weber case in Auburn, Cal, the
coroner's jury has brought in the follow
ing verdict: I'VE find that Julius Weber,
Mary Weber and Bertha Weber came to
their death by pistol shot wounds, and it
is the belief of this jury that said wounds
were inflicted by Adolph ]. Weber"
In a rear-end collision on the Pere
Marquette railroad in Elmdale, Mich,
three persons were killed and nine or
more injured. The foremost train had
branched CT on ~" and those in
charge had neglected to turn the switch.
so that the rear train also took the "Y."
Mrs. Jacob BonnisteeI. wife of the
local ice king, invaded Stahls saloon in
Bellalre. Ohio, on a hunt for her hus-
band, whom she found. She ran every
one out. it is claimed, and opened the
beer and whisky spigots until the floor
was flooded. She also broke the fixtures.
All the pupils in "a grade of the Nor
| wood High school, consisting of sixteen
sons and daughters of the most promi-
nent families in that Cincinnati suburb,
were indefinitely suspended because they
took down the American flag from the
school flagstaff and substituted the class
| colors.
Fear of arrest caused Leroy Messner,
aged II, TO take carbolic acid at his
home in Council Bluffs, and he died. Sew
eral boys had stolen some chocolate from
a freight car, but it is not believed that
Messner was implicated. His playmates,
to brighten him, said that the police
would come after him.
Three full-grown African lions of the
Robinson circus escaped while being
transferred from the railroad cars to
their winter quarters at Terrace Park,
suburb of Cincinnati They were cap
tured several hours later. William John
| .1. 81 H., ~
being struck by one of them.
Much mystery is attached to the sud-
den death in Cincinnati of C. A. Parker,
second vice president of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton Railway. Parker
had been respondent since the suicide of
his son in st. Louis. six months ago, and
1t is stated he had been worried over
rumors of the roads sale to the Erie line
and the possibility of his losing his posi-
| ton
Within the past few months it has
developed that a great number of full
blood Cherokee Indians In Indian Terri
tory are becoming cocaine fiends. A little
investigation shows that druggists are
disposing of a great deal of this drug,
but what is more startling still, is that
there are lot of persons who have been
going into the country and selling cocaine
to the Indians
| With crash like a mighty lombard
ment a number of tanks under tremen-
deus pressure from charges of acetylene
gas exploded in the plant of the Chicago
acetylenc gas branch of the Pyle Nation
al Electric Headlight Company, spread
ing death and destruction. Forty men
we're at work close by when the blast
came. Many of them were picked up
crushed and mangled at long distances
from the scene of the explosion.
By permission of the War Department,
Antaero, 14-year-old head hunter of
the Igorrote village at the worlds fair
in st. Louis, will be adopted by DR.. Will
o. Campbell of that city, and Tabae, q
Moro girl. 10 years old, will enter the
home of Mrs. Charles Wentz of Balti-
more. They will be expected to take the
little Filipinos into their homes, send
them to school and educate them into
American clothes rs we'll as language
and pursuits.
Fire destroyed the Missouri building
II the st. Louis worlds fair, and in re-
| spending to the alarm one fireman was
killed and two others were injured, one
| pfObdDiy <ilteI tie IRE WdS u0-
der control the south wall of the building
fell. injuring two city hremen, one of
these probably fatally. Several rescues
were made by fremen. The fire was
caused by the explosion of hot water
heater in the basement. The loss is esti-
mated at $225,000, on which there. was
no insurance.
The two outlaws who made raid on
the First National Bank of Cody, Wyo.,
recently and killed Cashier Middaugh,
and who since have been pursued by
posses, came out of their hiding place in
the Owl Greek mountains and Eald up
and robbed saloon and gambling house
in Thermopolis. The two robbers en-
tered the place each heavily armed and
ordered everybody to hold up his hands.
This the occupants of the place did and
| they were lined up. One of the robbers
covered the customers while the other
went through their pockets The report
also says large sum of money was Sc
| cured. The men backed out of the place
and made their escape on fast horses.