The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-10-05

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In lola, Kan, G. L. Melvin, the joint
wrecker, was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for not less than five nor more
than ten years on the charge of burglary
and for not less than one nor more than
five years on the charge of stealing dyna-
mite.
The Kansas City State Bank, Wiley
o. Cox. president, failed to open its
doors Monday, having gone into volun-
tary liquidatio The bank had loaned
S16S,OOO to the Bank of Salmon & Sal
mon at Clinton, No., which failed last
July.
Because he was well dressed, jingled
few silver coins in his pocket and acted
as if he were a western ranchman, John
+. Grouse of Cleveland was robbed and
thrown from a Nickel Plate train on
the Rocky river bridge. The body was
found 100 feet below.
The grand jury in Indianapolis has
returned two indictments in connection
with the Sherrick defalcation.. One is
against Sherrick for misuse of the
States funds and embezzlement, and the
other - against some one else whose
name cannot be learned.
The safe of the Bank of Osborn, Ohio,
was blown open at o'clock the other
morning by burglars. The report of the
explosion aroused the inhabitants and
ca used great excitement in the town.
TIE safe blowers escaped, but the
amount of booty is not known.
Adelina Elizabeth Knobel of st. Louis,
aged Is years. has made affidavit that
at the instance CT her sweetheart she
swore falsely against her brother, Joseph
Knobel. two years ago. He was sent 10
the penitentiary for ten years for man
slaughter, of which he was innocent, she
said
Gov. HOch of Kansas has filed suit
in the State Supreme Court demanding
the Impeachment of Mayor Rose of Kan
sas City, Kan, and James s. Gibson,
county attorney of Wyandotte county
and for the revocation of the city's char
ter because saloons are allowed to re-
main open.
Jesse Donahue of Minneapolis and
Harry Ripson of Cuba, Mo-, telephone
linemen, were electrOcuted in st. Paul.
Ripson was at the top of a cable pole
holding one end of a measuring tape
while Donahue, on the ground, held the
other. The tape came in contact with
q live wire.
Rev. s. A. Hutchinson. 81 years DID,
was killed by passenger train at Upper
Sandusky, Ohio, while picking up coal
along the tracks. His body was terribly
mutilated by the train, his skull being
crushed. his back broken and both legs
fractured. The aged minister was worth
about $4,000.
In Portland, Ore, the jury in the
case of Congressman J. y. Williamson,
DIR. Van Gessner, his partner in the live
stock business, and Marion r. Biggs, a
lawyer. returned q verdict convicting the
defendants of subornation of perjury in
securing men to fraudulently locate on
government land.
A man giving his name as Harry
Smith. but who is believed to be Joe
Knipper, Dayton safe-blower, was ar
rested on a traction car near Springfield
Ohio. He had a bottle partly filed with
ntroglycerin and a pistol identified as
the one owned by the cashier of the
Osborn. Ohio, bank.
William III. kirkpatrick, PHILADELPHIA
agent of the Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance Company of Milwaukee, was
found dead in the bathroom of his apart
ments with bullet wound in his head.
He had been in i'll health for some time
and it is believed he committed suicide
because of melancholia.
A desperate revolver duel under cir
cumstances which railway men say were
never pafalleled took place early We'd
uesday on a flying Wabash train bound
from Chicago to st. Louis. For twenty
miles, with the train rushing and rocking
through darkness, two employees of the
Pacific Express Company, barricaded
behind piles of express packages, sought
to kill each other. The battle ended on
arrival of the train in Decatur. The men
engaging in the desperate encounter We're
John L. Ryan, 1920 West Sixty-fourth
place. and Edward Greene. living in
Hammond, both trusted employees of the
company for many years. Both Greene
and Ryan were wounded three times.
An hour after the fight in the car Mes
senger Ryan whispered from cot in the
Wabash hospital in Decatur that he had
suffered in defense of the property in
trusted to his care. He declared Greene
had invaded the car with intent to rob
it and that the duel followed the inva-
vasion. Greene told a different story.