The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03
WESTERN.

Anthony Libhart. n 15-year-old boy of
Marietta. Ohio, was killed in playful
scuffle with a companion for gun.
\ storm swept the northern part of
Racine county, Wisconsin. killing two
men and DANA ing property and crops.
The government may Dust the holders
of 21.000 acres of disputed land in
o Brien and adjacent counties of Iowa.
Matte and Grace Wigner. sisters. aged
II and 16. respectively. of Lacynne,
Kan, were drowned while attempting to
ford a creek.
The newspaper and job printing plant
Rock, Ark. was burned. Loss S125. 900.
insurance $4,000.
Mrs. Almira Kramer. who died at Kali
amazoo. Mich. provided in her will that
$4,000 shall be set aside, the income TO
be used TO feed tr;imps.
W. ]. Parker, a mining engineer OF
Cleveland. was struck dead by lightning
ar Whitney. thirty miles from Salisbury.
His horse also was killed.
Snow furries lasting several minutes
made Neenah, Wis. shiver At 0 o'clock
Sunday night. The temperature fell from
Sc to 46 in two hours and heavy coats
and wraps were worn.
Lightning struck the roof of the girls
building at the State reform school at
Niles City. Mont. causing fire that de-
stroyed the building. All the inmates
escaped. Loss 100000
| Samuel Harper, father of President
William X. Harper of the University of
Chicago, died at the residence of his son
in that city. His death was caused by
weakness from old age.
Five military convicts have escaped
from the guardhouse at Fort Wright.
near Spokane, Wash. All of them were
men sent into the fort TO serve sentences
for desertion from other army posts.
The Secretary of the Interior has or
dered the withdrawal from entry of 49,
600 acres of land in the Los Angeles,
Cal, district, and 100000 acres in the
Tucson. Ariz.. district on account of irri-
cation projects.
Trades union principles and methods
have been adopted by the farmers of
Oklahoma and Indian Territory. A con-
siderable number have agreed TO use the
union label on all their products and is
sue working cards.
An urgent call for harvest hands came
from North Dakota, when Des Moines
employment firm was notified that 1,O0C
men were wanted in that State to har-
vest the wheat crop. The wages offered
are 81 to 50 per day.
\ Former State Senator William f.
Finck and wife were fatally burned by
a natural gas explosion in their home in
somerset. Ohio. There is little or nc
hope, according to the doctors, that
either of them will recover.
The lumber yards at Preston, MINI.
were destroyed 10y fire, with a loss o
$4,000. The yards, which were owned
by the Colman Lumber Company of L;
Crosse. were protected by insurance. Th'
cause Of the fire is unknown.
Mae. water spaniel. saved the Lives
of Frank Bridgeman, aged Z years, ant
Oliver Pugh, aged IL, at Duluth Th,
children got over their depth in Cheste
j creek. The boy chung to Macs tail an,
the girl to one of the dogs hind legs.
Walter ]. Hill, son of James ]. Hill
of the Great Northern Railway Com
: pany. was kicked by horse at Oakland
Neb., and seriously injured. He is com
! PEELED to give up his work and he will b
l taken to his home in St. Paul for treat
ment.
Buried in the wreckage of collapse
house, three boys were crushed to deaf
at Thirty-second and Fox streets, CHI
cago. Five other persons were injured
one Of whom may die. and many NOR
who had just left the structure had nal
!, row escapes.
Otto Bernheimer, a member of Berr
. heimer & Walter, cotton boxers, and r.
: puted to BE- wealthy. committed suicid