The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-12

spond to his love-making. The tragedy
occurred at Miss Phillips home in the
presence Of the mother and q sister OF
the victim.
Alva Adams, Democratic Governor
elect ef Colorado, gained a point in the
contest for his seat when the influence
Of former United States Senator VOL
colt prevented the u~nseating of two
Democratic Senators in the Legislature
Miss Muriel Byram, "a years old,
prominent in Chicago social circles, was
shot and almost instantly killed while
cleaning q rife preparatory to visiting
the southwestern part of the United
States with a party of relatives On a
hunting trip.
Final agreement has been made for
the consolidation of the Lafayette Ma
tional Bank and the First National Bank
of Cincinnati. to take effect as soon as
the legal requirements can be met. The
combined banks will be known as the
First National Bank.
Rev. Martin Johnson of Cass Lake,
Mimi, has been asked to give up his
passionate in the Presbyterian church be-
cause he refused to abandon the prac-
tice of speeding his fast mare in compe-
tition in the races which are run each
Saturday afternoon on the lake.
a wagon loaded with eighty quarts of
nltrOglycerin was struck by a Panhandle
passenger train near Dennison, Ohio.
The nitroglycerin failed to explode. Elk
perts say they annot understand why it
did not respond to the jolt. Such an in
stance never was heard of before.
Thirty-ive stereoty pers and electrotyp-
ers employed by Rand, McNally & Co
are oil strike in Chicago. The men
walked ont, the union officials say, be-
cause the firm refused to sign a contract
with the StereOtypers and Electrotypers'
Union similar to that agreed to by other
big printing houses in the Electrotypers'
Association.
-Four men were shot down in Chicago,
one officer dying within half an hour, in
a desperate battle between FIVE police
men and alleged outlaws who had taken
refuge in a house at 6S West Twenty
fifth place. Many shots were fired be-
fore the officers of the law gained the
mastery and arrested five persons in con-
nection with the murder.
y rural mail box cannot be controlled
by its owner, according to a ruling re-
ceived in Bucyrus. Ohio. from Washing
ton by Postmaster Hall. A rural car
rler found in a box letters without
stamps. but meant for the owner of the
box and left by someone in passing. The
carrier confiscated the letters, and this
act is sustained in the government ruling.
I--A IL
Kansas Southwestern railroad has re-
celved a letter from a woman living in
Oklahoma, inclosing 20 cents i'm payment
for coal, which. according to the letter.
had been stolen by the woman when she
was a child. The coal was taken from
the station at Caldwell. The woman
says she has been converted. which ac-
counts for her desire to pay for it. The
money was accepted and a new account
started on the c0mpany's books, here
tofore there being no need for a con-
science fund.
aiklos Pavlicek, aged 10 years, was
kidnapped in Elyria, Ohio, on his way to
the steel plant by two men, who took
him TO Baskerville, and in a houst
taught him how to drink LIQUOR. They
NA"hn WHISKY, anu Nucu the supply was
exhausted they. started to drink pure
alcohol They forced the young man to
drink with them. In the evening Paw
licek went home. He was rapidly sink
ing into a stupor when DIR. Anderson
was called. He became a raving ma
MAC. biting at any one who approached
him. He then became unconscious.
The body of Neil S. Phelps, the CAPT
talst OF Battle Greek, Mich. who mystic
riously disappeared Oct. % last. and who
was later supposed to have been located
i'll British Columbia, was found the other
day. badly decomposed in the river in
Battle Creek. The body was found lodg-
ed against a pile in the Battle Greek
river near the place where Phelps was
last seen alive the afternoon &C his dis
appearance. Phelps was the constructor
of a sanitarium in Battle Greek bearing
his name II was prominent in the food
industry. In 1908 his affairs became in
volved and he was given a year in which
to s~traighten out the tangle. He commit
ted suicide while respondent over the
loss of his fortune, which had been esti-
mated at several millions, and the result
ant troubles