The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-02-09

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snow.
A. O. Hughes, a clerk in the Kansas
Senate. was taken to the pesthouse in
Topeka with well-developed case of
smallpox. He had been i'll two days, but
remained on duty. Every Senator, most
of the employees, and hundreds of spec
tators were exposed.
Spencer Withorn, boy, killed his
brother at Mipot, ~ D., with a piece of
copper wire while the boys were play
fully throwing articles of wearing ap-
parel at each other. The sharp point Of
the wire pierced the lads skull, causing
death in three hours.
Alva Russell, IL, and Miss Maude
Graham, aged Is, were married at the
home of the bride in Mineral, Kan. The
groom is not the youngest man ever
granted q license, but the combined ages
of the two is less than that of any couple
recorded in the State.
The north-bound passenger train on the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton rail-
road jumped the track near Belmore,
Ohio. The chair and cafe cars toppled
over, and Mrs. Florence Frazier, aged
so, of Sidney, Ohio, was killed. About
twelve passengers were injured.
To his sister John Gilliphy, 10 years
old, of Chicago, owes his life. Despond-
ent, the young man bought carbolic acid
and went home to kill himself. Margaret,
the sister, entered the room as he raised
the bottle TO his lips and dashed it from
his hand. Gilliphy was arrested.
j. Hobart Moore of Chicago, chairman
Of he IL 81 of a.
Island railroad, has presented his son
Nathaniel with q check for 100000 as
gift upon his twenty-frst birthday.
The young man found the check in an
envelope beside his plate at breakfast.
Gov. Mickey of Nebraska honored the
requisition of Gov. Folk of Missouri for
the return to Andrews county, Missouri,
Of William Jones to face charge of
grand larceny. Jones had just been re-
leased from the Nebraska penitentiary
after completing a term for horse steal
ing.
Two men were killed and one was
seriously injured in a wreck on the Bal
timore and Ohio near Dennison, Ohio.
The men were ''pinching up" a car on a
siding when freight train left the track
and crashed into the car the men were
working on. i broken rail was the
cause.
Charles o. Ingersoll of Elyria, Ohio,
said to have been the oldest employe in
the railway mail service, died in a Cleve-
land hospital of neuralgia of the heart.
Mr.. Ingersoll was 20 years old. He en-
tered the railway service in 1851 and
performed his duties until few days
before his death.
The postoffices at Canal Winchester
and Groveport, near Columbus, Ohio,
were robbed early Sunday morning. At
Canal Winchester the safe was blown
and $500 worth of stamps taken, the
thieves overlooking $500 cash that was
within easy reach. Only few dollars
worth OF stamps was taken at GrOveport.
In Stafford, Kan, fifteen stores were
destroyed by fire. The total loss is $780,
600. The town was saved by sacrifice
made by ]. l.. Ball, who permitted
back fire to be started in his building, on
which no insurance was carried. The
Farmers State Bank, o. III. Baugh,
drugs. and Fort Brothers general store
were the other principal losers.
Victor Roland O'Shea was convicted of
manslaughter in Chicago, his victim hav-
ing been his wife, who was Amy Hogen-
son, daughter of Emanuel Hogenson, an
architect. The punishment for man
slaughter is from one year to a life term
in the penitentiary. The trial was the
second, the jury in the first having dis
agreed. O'Shea and Miss Hogenson were
married secretly at Waukegan, ILL.,, July
Z, 1901. each returning home and not
making the fact of their marriage known
until after the lapse of several months.
Their action did not meet with the ap-
prevail of the girls parents, and differ
ences arose. Sept. 10, 1902, O'Shea call
ed at his wife's home and shot her.
For many years the State law govern
ing the fishing industry on the great
lakes bordering on the State of Michigan
has been violated by fishermen employed
in the northern regions of Lake Superior,
Lake Huron, Whitefsh Bay and Kewee-
nav Bay. As result, after careful
investigation, State Game and Fish War
den Chapman, with the aid of a score of
district and county deputies, has begun
war on illegal fishing. The first violation
was reported to Mr.. Chapman from Sault
Ste. Marie, where Deputy Game War
dens Dixon and Penny seized 1000 nets,
all of illegal mesh. In this district
wholesale business has been carried on in
understood herring, whitefish and trout
caught through the ice.