The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-14
FEATURES OF INTEREST

FEATURES OF INTEREST
CONCERNING PEOPLE, PLACES
AND DOiNGS OF THE WORLD.
and Crimes, Accidents and
Fires, Labor and Capital. Grain.
Stock and Money Markets.
Another Murder at Bedford, Ind.
Lemuel Lynch, aged 21, of Morgantown,
c., was shot and instantly killed by
Benjamin Rhoades at Bedford, Ind.
The shooting occurred at the home of
.hoades. Lynch had been paying atten-
ton to Rhoades' neice and when he came
10 the house on a social call Rhoades came
b door and shot him in the breast with
, shotgun. Rh0ades, who was arrested,
plains that Lynch had been drinking and
attempted to force his way into the house
being warned not II do so.
Three Crushed In the Wreckage.
Two Baltimore & Ohio freight trains col
lided at Rexabet, ten miles west of Chilli
,othe, Ohio. Engineer John Mullen and
fireman f.. G. Sampson were killed, and
William Taylor fatally injured.
eastbound freight broke in two and the
part took a siding while the rear end
zane on down the grade on the main track,
a ~westbound freight. The dead
injured were on the %westbound train.
The men all lived in C%hillic0the.
Mystery in Old Mans Death.
Michael Dinner, aged 81 years, who lived
a daughter and son-in-law, George
johnson, near ShelDyville, Ind, was found
lead In the barn at midnight, with his
Ikull crushed. Johnson, whose wife is
'ole heir TO Dinners money and ninety
acres of land, was not on speaking terms
With the old man. He says he went to the
dreamed that her father was falling from a
)arn loft.
Two Hundred Perish on Great Lakes.
According to figures compiled by the
marine news bureau at Chicago, the
ieath list on the great lakes during the
peason now closing has been the heaviest
If any year since big steel vessels began to
De used on the lakes. A total of 2l5 lives
we're lost. OF these 116 were lost during
he great storms of this fall.
Cremated in His Own Home.
The charred remains of Charles James, a
veil known farmer living three miles
southeast of Oxford, Ohio, was found in a
.--o- ~ tho oafTor H,rnoI En- IN orscp Tho
'csidence was also burned. James was Is
Tears Did and lived by himself. 1t is sup
posed he was asleep and the house caught
ire from a stove.
Hoosier Monte Carlo Closed.
Governor Hanly recently declared his
Intention of vigorously prosecuting the
,r0prietors of the gambling houses at West
Baden and French Lick Springs, Ind, and
Is a result the casino and gambling houses
It these resorts have been closed and the
)araphernaiia is being shipped out of the
Woman Killed i'm Police Court.
William Williams. IL years old, a negro,
stabbed and killed Elsie Parker, negress,
n the West Side Police Court, New York.
1 LC Olld udu SulitilOlcu NllAdIilS W
'ourt for beating her. The stabbing was
lone just inside the court room and in view
If the magistrate.
Misery Hermit Burned to Death.
James NJ. Blodgett. hermit banker OF
n. Y, said to be worth $1,000
)00, was burned TO death in his house.
8lodgett was graduated al Yale in 1850.
was noted for his miserly habits.
800 Indictments Returned.
Five hundred indictments were returned
oy the grand jury at Evansville, Ind,
saloon keepers who are charged
keeping money and card slot ma
.hines.
Reform Crusade in St. Paul.
A committee of fifty prominent citizens
has been formed by preachers and reform
ers TO start a reform crusade at st. Paul,
Mimi. 1t is to be n~on-p0litical in char
acter.
100000 Fire at Brooklyn.
The shops of the Union Dry Dock Com
pany and the Erie railroad transfer freight
house at Brooklyn, N. Y, were destroyed
D1 HIc, C&uciuS q hooS ~-oo3o0o
wouId Abolish Death Penalty.
Representative Joseph F. Sawicki Of
Cleveland, Ohio, has prepared a bill which
will introduce in the coming Legislature
abolishing capital punishment.
Old Indiana Politician Dead
Ex-State Senator James Charles, 20 year
old. who has beer prominent in republican
politics, died al Marion, Ind, alter an ill
ness of several days.
Boy Burned TO Death.
Myron Morrow, s years old, was burned
to death at his home in Richllond, Ind
His clothing caught fire while dressing il
front of a CRATE.
Cochran Elected Head of Tammany.
Congressman w. Bourke Cochran va
grand sachem of Tammany hall il
New York.
Frida Acquitted of Arson Charge.
Henry l.. Frida, on trial in the White,
Circuit Court at Columbia City, Ind, upol
the charge of having burned the barn upol
the Van Worst farm, neal COesse, Ind.
upon which he was a tenant, last July,w wa
acquitted by the verdict of the jury.
Pioneer Republica n Dead.
Joseph w. Fairbanks, one Of the found
ers of the republican party, died at Wash
fpeien. ID. c., aged 81 years. For NOR
than fifty years he had been p~1on,snenf j
banking. mere atile and Political affairs Q
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