The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-09
WESTERN.

The American breeders Association
will hold its second annual meeting at
Lincoln, Neb., on Jan. II, IS and 49,
Mrs. John Il. McNann was instantly
killed and her husband perhaps fatally
injured at Lead s. D., in a runaway
Charles J. Devlin, the Kansas coal
operator whose failure last July stirred
the whole country, is dead in Chicago.
Dr. C. III. French, president of Huron
Is. d. college, announced that Ralph
Voorhees, of New Jersey had given the
college 100000.
Sylvester Kendall aged 30, wife. and
seven children were caught by a fall of
soapstone in the Maley & Johnson mine
near Bellaire. Ohio, and instantly killed.
The national board of steam naviga-
tors has elected as president W. X
Kavanaugh of St. Louis. Mr.. Kava-
naugh is president of the Virgins Ferry
Company.
A special from Washington, Ind, says
that the Sandborn Bank, at Sandborn.
Ind. was robbed of $4,000 by burglars,
who blew open the safe the other night
and escaped.
Mrs. William Rubel was burned to
death, her son John fatally burned and
two daughters seriously injured by the
explosion of a kettle of pitch at Belle
fontaine, Ohio.
Fire which broke out in the basement
of the Alhambra theater and apartment
house at State street and Archer avenue,
Chicago, caused much alarm, but was
extinguished with loss of about 81 900.
Second Lieut.. John W Wild of the
revenue cutter Perry was drowned in the
bay at Seattle, Wash. He was son
of Captain ]. +. Wild of the cutter
Mackinac, now at Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich.
In the Circuit Court in st. Louis,
Judge Reynolds sentenced Patrick Cum
mings to two years in the penitentiary
On conviction of false registration. This
il the first conviction under the false
registration act.
The postoffce at Proctorville, Ohio,
was robbed and the safe blown with
nitroglycerln. Two registered letters,
$50 worth of stamps and $50 in money
were secured by the burglars, who es-
capped in q stolen skiG.
The Cudaby Pipe Line and Refining
| Company, 1t is said, has secured from
the st. Louis and San Francisco railway
the right Of way along the latter's tracks
for the projected oil pipe line from
Chelsea. I. Z, to st. Louis.
Mrs. II. J. Evans, wife of Henry j
Evans, we'll known in financial circles
Of Chicago. committed suicide at hel
home i'm that city, hanging herself to a
bedpost in the absence of the family
She had been Ill for a long time.
An excursion train bringing Mormons
from Salt Lake City will arrive in Mex
leo in few days. Mormon agents have
purchased tracts of land in the State Of
Oaxaca for colonization purposes, the ex
tent being more than 10000 acres.
While searching in a vacant lot ad
joining her home on Division street, st
Louis, for tin can in which to plant {
flower Miss Palona Scheppached, aged
10 years, found a tin can full of counter
felt coins Of various denominations unde
some weeds.
At 2 O'Clock Friday morning fou
burglars made an unsuccessful attemp
to rob the National bank at Odon, Ind
Two doors to the safe were forced opel
by nitroglycerine, but the robbers wer
unable to open the door leading to
money vault.
Because the Pullman Car Compan,
::as not paid to the treasurer of tn
State of Kansas a charter fee of $14,S0
for the permanent school fund, Attorne
General Coleman has brought quo war
ranto proceedings and asks that the com
pany be ousted.
& The Farmer National bank of King
fisher, Okla, has been closed by dirct
ton of the Comptroller of the Currency
! Nearly all of the stock OF the Kinghshe
bank is held as collateral security Q
owned by the Denver Savings banl
which recently failed.
Harry Bills, aged 20. killed his vii
during a quarrel at their home In til
outskirts Of Kent, Ohio. Bills cam
home under the influence Of drink. II
offered his wife some liquor. but sh
threw il In his face. Bills. enraget