The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-05-18
WESTERN.

The HeSSlan ny IS reported 10 nave
damaged Nebraska wheat.
President Roosevelt was entertained
Wednesday in Chicago, and his stay was
one great ovation.
Five hundred persons are reported to
have been killed and injured by cyclone
which demolished the entire town of
Snyder, Okla.
A tornado, preceded by a heavy hail
storm, struck NARROW, l. 7. Twenty
dwelling houses were wrecked and loss
of life is reported.
Buck Fontz, a stonemason of Irville,
Ohio, blew himself to pieces with dyna-
mite in Bergin's saloon when the bar
tender refused him a drink.
A t4.nado caused the collapse of the
Harroun grain elevator at Elwood, Kan.
John Colby and Harry Smith were
crushed to death in the ruins.
Mrs. A. R. Burns was frightened to
death in Elkhart. Ind, when lightning
struck her home in thunder storm. She
had always been afraid of lightning.
Marquette, Kan, practically lies in
ruins. Twenty-four persons are known
to have been killed and forty-fve injured
by a tornado which swept the residence
part of the village.
Mabel, the 5-year- old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. B. H. Metz. died in Spring
field, Ohio, after suffering intense pain.
Her illness was due to eating Easter
eggs which had been dyed.
Reports from all sections of California
tell of splendid crop conditions. The
in vic Mill h, Ia nd
ent indications the fruit season will show
an Improvement over last year.
A spell of violent hiccoughing, follow
ed by the bursting of a blood vessel,
caused the death of Miss Emma Egge-
brecht, the manager of the millinery de-
partment of Cincinnati store.
The police of Omaha have discovered
that the supposed gold discs which were
sent there to be sold to j. A. Billy, a
wealthy stockman of Quitman. No., for
$4,000 are made of copper alloy.
Leon E. Shaffer. principal Of schools
at Deshler, Ohio. pleaded guilty at Mon
roe, Mich, TO setting fire to the school
house at Erie, Mich. and was sentenced
to fifteen years in the penitentiary.
George d. Blake, formerly Chicago
lawyer, but now of San Francisco, is in
sane as the result of hypnotism. 1t is
thought his condition is due to the infu-
ence of Maud Won Freitag, medium.
DR.. A. L. Nevin, a member of the
Nevin family of Pittsburg, was found
dead on the river bank near Pueblo,
Cole. Mystery surrounds his death, and
by some it is thought he was murdered.
Death, due to nicotine poisoning caused
by cigarette smoking, was the record vf
q certificate filed with the health depart
ment by DR.. A. B. Isham in Cincinnati.
The victim was Charles Weber, Jr., II
| years old.
Ora Taylor and Ira Brewer were taken
| to Marion, the county seat, by the sheriff
| to prevent their being lynched as the re-
suit of the mysterious disappearance of
Lizzie McCullom. IA years old, from
Florence. Kan.
Lloyd Hedrick, student at the Or
! bana Ohio university, whose home is in
Chicago, was found on the streets in an
unconscious condition. He had been
sandbagged and robbed of a watch and
$3.50 in cash.
After having ignored several sum-
monses, Mrs. Mary La Pier of Cripple
| Creek was taken into the Teller county
District Court Of Colorado for jury SER
vice and selected as foreman of a jury
in divorce trial.
Edward Gottchalk, who pleaded guilty
| 70 numbering Joseph Hartmann, his ac-
complice in the murder and robbery of
| Christian H. Schindeldecker, a butcher,
was sentenced by Judge Lewis of st.
Paul, Mimi, to be hanged.
The Booth Theater in Sioux Falls. s.
d., was damaged badly by FIRE, caused
by the explosion of moving picture ma
chine. The building was well filed, but
the spectators marched out without ex-
hibiting any sign of panic.
III Kansas City a complaint has been
sworn out. held by trolley car motor.
man, against Jesse James. son of the
famous outlaw Of that name, charged
with usury. Young James is accused OF
charging 10 per cent interest month
The American Association of Iron
Steel and Tin Workers in session in De
troit, Mich, decided to demand a scale
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