The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-06-01
WESTERN.

Senator Ciarke's great copper mine at
Jerome. Ariz, has caved in from the
surface 20 the 700-foot level. No lives
were lost
ID. s. Berry was shot and killed at the
door of his Office in Savanna, Ill. There
is no clew 10 the slayer or to the motive
for shooting Mr.. Berry.
Gov. Herrick was renominated for
Governor of Ohio by the Republican
State convention. The nomination was
by reclamation and amid great enthusi-
asm.
Two men were asphyxiated in a cheap
lodging house FIRE at 240 Hennepin ave-
nue.. Minneapolis. Both are strangers,
one registering as Frank Green and the
ether simply as Fox.
Secretary Taft, addressing the Ohio
Republican convention, said either the
revenue taxes or the tariff must be
changed to meet the nations deficit, and
calls for a moderate rate law.
Gov. La Toilette in a message to the
Assembly at Madison, Wis, denounced
scathingly lobbyists who operate at the
capitol, and urged the passage of law
to make the practice penal offense.
William Ivell, uncle of Marion well.
the famous opera singer, for many years
head Of a department in Minneapolis
dry goods store, committed suicide by
asphyxia ton in the Niles hotel in that
city.
On Sept. Il the fourth anniversary of
the death of William Mckinley, the
corner stone of the national monument
will be laid on Monument Hill. Canton.
Ohio. Justice William X. Day viii place
the corner stone.
The supreme assembly, Uniformed
Rank, Knights of Pythias, now in sixth
biennial convention in Indianapolis, de-
cided to hold the next national encamp-
ment of the Uniformed RAM in New
Orleans. This will be in September.
Edward w. Nash, president of the
American Smelling and Refining Com
pany, was stricken with paralysis while
attending a dinner at the home of Her
man Kountze, prominent banker of
Omaha. There are hopes of his recov-
cry.
Edwin Stephens, who lived at Ross
Valley, Cal, killed his wife, shot his five
children, three of whom will die, and
then committed suicide after endeavoring
to kill a passing milkman. Stephens is
supposed TO have suddenly become in
sane.
The first case of Michigan strawber-
ries for this season was shipped to Chi
cago by Ernest Durham of st. Joseph.
The biggest crop of strawberries in the
history of Michigan will be gathered this
year. 1t Is now estimated at 500, 900
cases.
NJ. w. Murray, a contractor of Ros-
well. N. NJ. on his way to Lincoln ON a
pleasure trip, was crossing the Rio
Grande, when his wagon, in which he
and his family were riding, overturned.
resulting in the drowning of his wife and
six children.
In Savanna. ILL.,, the mystery of the
murder Of Daniel s. Berry was cleared
away by the bullet, fired by his own
hand, which blew out the brains of Roth
well Pulford, Savanna's wealthiest citi-
zen, whose name had been connected
with the Berry assassination.
The Presbyterian general assembly at
Winona Lake, Ind. upheld the orthodox
creed of the church when it voted down
q proposition presented as an overture
from the Nassau, N. Y, presbytery pro-
viding for a brief statement of faith in
place Of tho Westminster confession.
The long talked of Ohio River and
Lake Erie ship canal is to become re-
atty at last through private capital. The
undertaking is to be put through by
Pittsburg capitalists who have formed a
company with a capital of $2,625, 900,
which will be increased to $30,O00,000.
Wesley G. Parker, until the other day
exchange teller in the Arkansas National
Bank of Hot Springs, Is missing, and II
Is claimed his accounts show a shortage
! of $4,000. President c. N. Rix Of the
bank admits the shortage, and says that
the institution is fully secured by bond
| The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the
direct inheritance tax law by Affirming
| the decision of the Darke county Circuit
| Court In the case of Hostetter vs.. the
| State Of Ohio While the law is upheld
| the Supreme Court makes it very plain
| that the Inheritance tax cannot be retro
active.
While the infant child Of Preston Nc