The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-31
WESTERN.


shaken by severe earthquake.
! Miss Zelda Stewart and John Charters
Of Chicago were rescued after being
adrift forty hours on Lake Michigan.
The Chicago board of review decided
against the city's contention for high
/ tax for Illinois Tunnel Company, fixing
S553. $40 as value.
Three trainmen were killed in a head
on collision between two Union Pacific
freight trains, one and a half miles east
of Rossville, Kan.
/ Frank G. Bigelow, the Milwaukee ex-
banker, who is a convict in Leayenworth
prison, is studying Christian science,
with view to adopting the belief.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Nenke, each over
| 30 years old, were killed by lightning in
bed at the home of their daughter, Mrs.
William o. Boring. at Pickerell, Neb.
The court of inquiry found that the
explosion on the gunDoat Bennington was
due to the negligence of Ensign Wade
and three enlisted men who were killed.
Employees in the molding department
/ of the Root rolling mill in Indianapolis
struck. because the owners declared for
an open shop and engaged a non-union
man.
DIR. William Rininger. a member of
the faculty of the Marion Sims Medical
College, st. Louis, was killed by ben
zine explosion in the laboratory at his
home.
The Detroit Tribune, after an exist
ence Of nearly twenty-seven years, has
been consolidated with the Detroit News,
which will publish a morning and even
ing edition.
Gen. Frank Baldwin of Oklahoma
City, who had a narrow escape from
| death from bullet fired during the ma
neuvers at Fort Logan. near Denver, has
tabooed the sham battle.
Four men were killed by the explosion
of a boiler on a dredge boat near Nor
horne, Mo. The bodies were hurled sew
eral feet from the wreck and were mu-
tilated beyond recognition.
Tilted because the pastor of his church
won the affections of his fancee, he says,
Adolph Kreis of Jennings, Mo-. has sued
Miss Mary j. Wilson for $25, 900, alleg-
| ing breach of promise to marry.
The will of Bishop Isaac w. Joyce,
deceased, has been filed for probate in
Minneapolis. He left $4,000 in life in
surance and S13,50O in realty and per-
sonal property. The money goes to the
+, widow.
/ That two murders were committed for
the purpose of robbery is revealed after
a careful investigation of the circum-
stances surrounding the deaths of Theo-
dore Holden and his wife Bertha in
Cleveland.
Work on the railroad tunnel which is
to be constructed under the Detroit river
/ between Windsor and Detroit began the
4 other day when Iorce of workmen was
/ set to work sinking the initial shaft on
the American side.
Mrs. Charles II. Hackley, wife of the
millionaire benefactor of Muskegon,
Mich, who died several months ago,
Passed away Monday morning after a
lingering Illness She was heir to sew
eral million dollars.
Policeman Frank Spanning Of st.
Louis is dead, as the result of exposure
in storm all night watching the home
of President Francis of the fair, while
President Roosevelt and ex-President
Cleveland were guests.
For the third time Johann Hoch has
escaped from the shadow of the gallows
Justice Magruder of the Illinois Supreme
Court granted supersedeas in the case
and the expected execution did not oc
cur Friday in Chicago.
4 The United States government build
ing at the Louisiana Purchase EXPOSE
ton in St. Louis, erected at a cost OF
100000, has been sold TO a wreckinl
company for $1O,5oJ. The steel trusse.
in the structure alone cost 100000
George Wolfel. an expert machinist
who. after having been discharged fo
drunkenness some months ago, shot hi
employer, Richard G. Stewart of thu
Stewart iron works, Covingtor, commit
ted suicide at his home in Cincinnati.
d Samuel Studzinski. fur buyer AM
pawnbroker, was found dead in his plac
of business in Lewistown. Mont, havinl
J been beaten to death. While robbery !
. believed to have been the motive Their
Is n element of mystery IN the tragedy
Lambert Niehaus. in the presence o
the death watch and in sight of 5al
guards and others, cheated the gallow
BY taking his own life in cell 81 of tn
!, city Jail in st. Louis. Niehaus used q
! ordinary penknife with blade tire
|. inches long
Benny Parak, 16 years old and
| nembsr Of gang Of boy desperadoe