The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-05-25
WESTERN.

Lieut.. E. L. Chapman was shot in the
back and killed during a sham battle in
| Oklahoma.
| -Four armed men robbed the jewelry
store of ID. Lapde in Chicago of $3,UOJ
in diamonds.
/ DIR. Frank Billings of Chicago has
been elected president of the Association
of American Physicians.
-Four persons are dead and two others
have been fatally wounded by lunatic
! in the southern section of San Diego,
| Cal
| Otto Kroeschell, a rich manufactures
| of that city, who had been missing sew
eral days, was found dead in the Chicago
river.
Johann Hoch, confessed bigamist, was
convicted in Chicago of poisoning Mrs.
Welcker-Hoch, and was sentenced to be
hanged.
The National Electric Com pany of
Milwaukee, of which Frank G. Bigelow
was the head, has been placed in the
hands of a receiver.
Elbridge G. Keith, long prominent in
Chicago commercial life and leading
spirit in public enterprises, died after an
attack of pneumonia.
Edward c. O'Brien, managing editor
of the Gopher of 1904, was expelled from
the University of Minnesota on charges
of Incorporating money.
The attorneys for Col. W. F. Cody
buffalo Bib have filed in the District
Court in Sheridan. Wyo., motion for a
new trial of his divorce suit.
In fit of jealousy Frank Cowells, a
Pueblo, Colo, switchman, shot to death
Miss Stella Brice, his former sweetheart,
and sent bullet into his own brain.
The home of A. l.. Comstock, three
miles east of Waynesville. Ohio, was
burned and Mrs. Comstock and her g.
year-old child persisted in the flames.
Despondent over i'll health, Mrs. Mary
Ellers, an aged German woman, choked
herself to death in Waterloo, Iowa, by
knotting handkerchief about her throat.
Ivor Davidson, who became prominent
as circus giant years ago, his height be-
ing Z feet inches. died at his home at
Roscoe. near Red Wing, Mimi. He was
46 years old.
The Pacific coast record for long-dis-
lance wireless telegraphing has been
broken, it is asserted, by wireless mes
sage received at San Francisco from 80
miles out at sea.
Ralph L. Ray of Lancaster, Wis, has
accepted a position as private tutor of
the English language to King Alfonso of
Spain Ray was recommended by the
Spanish consul of Chicago.
A west-bound Big -Four passenger
train ran into an open switch at Mont
morenci, Ind, and was wrecked. The
engineer and fireman were killed and a
score of persons were injured.
Mrs. Cassie Il. Chadwick has issued
statement detailing her financial opera
tons and showing that since Jan. 1, 1901,
her resources have been $3,21O,OOO, of
which 100000 was borrowed.
The upper house of the Wisconsin
Legislature passed a railroad rate COM
mission bill. Gov. La Toilette has won
his long fight for rate legislation and will
become a United States Senator.
When Officers Weigand and Maugh-
mer of Chillicothe, Ohio, attempted to ar
rest colored burglar the burglar fatally
shot Weigand in the breast and escaped,
but was later captured by posse.
Friends of Miss Jennie Croker of San
Francisco have learned by q letter from
her that she dropped $25, 900 necklace
of pearls into the Atlantic ocean. Miss
Croker was on her way to Europe.
The first report Of the grand jury in
the boodling investigation of the last Ar
kansas Legislature has been made and
eight indictments returned. But two are
known to have been against legislators.
Fast mail train No. 81 on the Monon
Route struck a broken rail FIVE miles
south of Lowell, Ind, derailing the In
dianapolis sleeper, which contained about
ten passengers. No one was seriously in
jured.
The Northern Pacific Bank at Brai-
nerd, Mimi, has been closed by the pub
lie examiner because of a lack of suffi-
cient cash on hand. Its deposits amount
to $165,O00 and liabilities are put at
$500, 900.
Officials of the wagon workers union
In Chicago are involved in a confession
made by one of their number, it being
revealed that u man who refused to
strike was beaten to death by hired
thugs for SIS.
The Planters Hotel in st. Louis has
changed hands. Colonel T. ]. Landrum
of Louisville, KY, and several St. Louis
men have purchased Manager Henry
Weaver's stock in the operating COM
pany, paying 100000.
The Cleveland retail coal dealers who
recently were indicted on the charge of
Illegally combining to control the price
Of coal filed a demurrer attacking the
constitutionality of the law under which
they are being prosecuted.
An escaped convict, Furbie Howard,
voluntarily returned and surrendered
himself to complete his penitentiary term
In Sioux Falls, S. d. He is 20 years
old, and June last was sentenced to
year in the penitentiary for attempting