The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-04-20
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near Keokuk, Iowa. Buildings were
shaken, but no serious damage was done.
University of Michigan debaters won
over University of Chicago students in
the Central College Oratorical League
contest.
The Virginia Park summer hotel, four
Peter Mccarthy of Chicago, was burned
to the ground. The loss is $4,000.
The census of Omaha, taken by the
publishers of the city directory, gives the
place 127 200 population, an increase in
the last five years of about % per cent.
"Good-by, you suckers, good-by," was
the notice posted by a get-rich-quick con-
Germ that failed to open its doors at
Kansas City. No.. leaving thousands of
victims.
Before she could make an outcry, Mrs
George Lucke, formerly of Clinton, Iowa,
was forced to see her husband drink a
fatal potion of carbolic acid at Minneapo-
lis, Mimi.
Victor Ross and John r. Campbell,
prisoners held on charges Of desertion.
escaped from Fort Wayne. The sentry.
James w. Binkley, who was guarding
them, Is also missing.
Willie Armsington, aged 13. is under
arrest in Malta, Mont. charged with
killing his stepfather, William Sitz. The
two had quarreled and the boy shot his
stepfather three times.
Fire destroyed much of the business
portion of Sunfeld. Mich, causing loss
/ Of $4,000. Cole & Fisk. hardware mer-
chants, and w. B. Bere, general store.
were the heaviest losers.
Mrs. S. w. Wider, the wife of a news
paper man, shot and killed Mrs a. G.
tional hotel at Cripple Greek, Colo. Jeal-
ousy is supposed to be the cause.
For one year at least Frederick A
Stock, late assistant under Theodore
Thomas, and temporary conductor since
the great concertmeister's death, will be
the leader of the Theodore Thomas or
.hestra in Chicago.
A giant mastif puppy jumped upon
he bed of Mrs. John Finnegan in Butte.
Mont, and lay on the face and breast
If her 3-months-old daughter, smothering
It. The infant had been dead an hour
when the mother awoke.
Sewer gas In a conduit along Jeffer-
ION avenue, Cass avenue and Garrison
avenue, st. Louis, was ignited by some
molten metal and the explosion damaged
.he streets for two miles, broke windows
Ind burned four workmen.
"Hunky" Davies, the University of
Minnesota football player, was awarded
1915 in his suit against the Illinois Cen
--~l Railway Company for an assault
by special officer of that company in
Chicago after the Northwestern game
asst year.
St. Louis passed a gloomy Sunday
1nder the lid" practically all business
being suspended, and citizens going not
only thirsty. but hungry in many in
stances. Nearly every line of business
vas closed down with the exception OF
druggists.
Remorse over being rebuked by his
pastor for intemperance caused Captain
James Rider, sexton of ST. James Epis-
:opal Church, in st. Louis, to commit
suicide in the church building while Rev.
Edmund Duckworth was preaching his
morning sermon.
Mrs. Mary Hill, 80 years old, of Chi
fears old, through the chest near the
heart. and ten minutes later, filed with
remorse at her deed, attempted to COM
nit suicide by swallowing the contents
If a bottle of iysol.
Traces of radium have been found ten
niles east of the business center of Kan
,as City, according to reports just made
by Prof. r. B. Moore, instructor Of
chemistry, and Prof Herman Schlundt,
Instructor of physical chemistry, in the
rAivarsity of Missouri.
Tight lacing and hearty eating caused
The sudden death of Mrs. Violet O'Con-
aor, wife of John II. O'Connor, a travel
ing salesman in st. Louis. While hast
sning from her hotel to the residence OF
In friend, Mrs. O'Connor Eel unconscious
On the street and died soor afterwards
Carrie Nation, Myra NJ Henry and
Nrs. Lucy Without were fo'ind guilty In
he District Court in Wichita. Kan. OF
destroying property and wre sentenced
By Judge Wilson Mrs. Nation was fined
$3.50 and given four months in jail. Gen
fence was suspended pending good be-
havior.
| Hundreds of people locked into Reno
New, fleeing from a sickness at Tono.
Ipah. Every train for week has been
crowded. The disease is killing people
1t the rate Of Eve to twenty-five a day
The disease strikes without warning and
the bodies are blackened by the mysteri
Gus poison.
| Mrs. Dora jackson, fc~merly one Of
The bellies Of Los AM les, Cal, commit
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