The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-24

a stranger with whom he quarreled al
Olean, in that county.
A daring highwayman held up the
Yosemite Valley stages on their latest
trip, one at a time, above Grub Gulch,
CAL, and relieved the passengers of their
money, Anton Veith, Austrian consul at
Milwaukee, being a victim.
| Charges Of irregularities in the man
agemens cf the State industrial school for
boys were filed with the board of control
in Topeka, Kan. by DIR. Eva Harding,
Topeka physician, against III. w.
Charles. the superintendent
Albert Gunderson of Racine, Wis,
was found dead near Cheyenne Wells,
Colo. on the right of way of the Kansas
Pacific railroad. His head had been
pounded into a pulp with barrel stave.
The body had been robbed of everything
of value.
Rev. Leroy Hooker of Chicago, who
has been living in Winnipeg, Manitoba,
for several months past, left his hotel the
other morning and nothing has been seen
or heard of him since. Hooker was TAX
ing an interest in the local real estate
movement.
The Peoples Gas Company Of Coffey-
vile, Kan, sold to the Kansas Natural
Gas Company, for S1,0OO,OO0, its gas
territory of 10000 acres in Montgomery
county. containing 12S wells with a daily
capacity of G00,OOv cubic feet of natural
flow pressure gas.
The population of Iowa, according to
the State census, will show loss of
fr0p he
The total reports give the State popu-
iation of 2,216.O6S- Only twenty-three
of the ninety-nine counties show a gain
by the State census.
Herbert Mills, formerly treasurer of
the Jarvis Conkln Mortgage Trust Com
pany of Kansas City, was found lying on
the sidewalk i'm front of Bethany hos
pital, Kansas City, Kan, where he was
an inmate, and died two hours later. His
skull had been crushed.
The United States lake survey boat
Hancock was sunk in Lake st. Clair
about two miles north of the Crosse
Point lightship No lives were lost The
Hancock was crossing the channel, when
the package freighter Binghamton of
Buffalo smashed its bow.
Following the decision of United States
Circuit Judge Van Deventer denying an
injunction to prohibit the enforcement of
Il fraud order by the postal authorities.
the directors of the Peoples United
States Bank in st. Louis have voted to
go into voluntary liquidation.
Lightning struck a cable at the Chaplin
mine at Stephenson, Mich, and ran down
ZOOS feet, prematurely setting off two of
six dynamite charges intended for sink
ing the shaft deeper. Anton Erickson
was blown to atoms. The Anderson
brothers were perhaps fatally injured.
Reports indicate that the storm Mon
day night caused damage estimated at
several hundred thousand dollars in
southwestern Ohio and less serious loss
in other parts of the State and in Ken
lucky and Indiana. At Hamilton, Ohio,
the rainfall reached two and half
inches, causing a flood in the Miami
RIVER. which washed away several small
bridges. Lightning struck a traction car
near Middletown, Ohio, during the storm
and Mrs. William Kroeger of Louisville
suffered broken rib and other injuries.
Near Mansfield, Ohio, Joseph Finney,
years old, died from the effects of
stroke of lightning. Misses Nellie Smith
and Lulu Wilson were seriously injured
by lightning which struck a farm house
near Marysville. Ohio. Seven persons
were stunned by lightning near Circle
vile, but all will recover.