The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-05
WESTERN.

Vice President-eiect Fairbanks is a
full-fiedged Mason. having taken three
degrees at Indianapolis.
The volume of Christmas shopping in
Chicago this year is estimated at S45,-
DOC. 900, the greatest in the city's history.
-Four men were killed and one injured
by an explosion of four boilers at the
sawmill plant of Walworth N Neville, at
WalviIle. Wash.
The Cunningham Milling Company's
plant and the Little Rock Furniture
Company's works burned in Little Rock.
Ark. Loss, S150.O00.
A modern hotel with 400 rooms and
costing more than $1,O00,O00 is to be
erected on the old site of the burned Pike
Opera House, Cincinnati.
n Wabash east-bound passenger train
collided with a freight near Fort Wayne,
md. killing Engineer A. NJ. Ballard and
i~njuring ten other persons.
-Four persons were killed and many
others injured by a blizzard which swept
over Chicago at the rate of seyenty-two
miles an hour. destroying much property.
Charles Wilhelman, who recently was
acting as agent for a Cincinnati sausage
cOLlpIuN. tOiullilltu Sulcluc Ds "
himself while in p field near Columbus,
Ohio.
The newly built Majestic Theater in
Fort Wayne, Ind, was ruined by fire.
causing a loss of probably $4,000. The
FIRE started through an explosion in the
engine room.
Attorney General Moody has filed a
petition in St. Paul, Mimi, alleging ille-
gal combination of twenty-five concerns,
with the General Paper Company as
sales agent, and asks for an injunction.
Charles NJ. Trave-, president of the
closed First National Bank of Con-
neaut, Ohio, filed a personal petition in
voluntary bankruptcy in Cleveland, plac-
ing his liabilities at $500 and his as
sets at S25, 900.
Two f-emen were killed and damage
of $40. 900 was lone in a fire that de-
stroyed the West Side repair shop of the
Union Traction Company in Chicago. The
fire was the fifth in fifteen months in
this %company's plants.
An explosion of dynamite at No. 3 tun-
mel ON the Wabash railroad, near New
Alexandria. Ohio. injured five men who
We're too near when the shot was put
off. Two were fatally hurt. Their
bodies are frightfully cut up.
Mrs. Mary Olive Root, widow of the
late DIR. George +. Root. author of war
songs and ballads. died at her home in
Chicago at the age of 70 years. Mrs.
Root was the mother of Mrs. Clara
Louise B~nrnham. the authoress-
Seven of nine convicts at the State
prison in Folsom. Cal. who made a
break for liberty were almost riddled
with bullets. Three are dead and three
are in a critical condition. Captain X.
]. Murphy, g prison official. was shot In
the leg.
Two men and two horses were drown
ed and frozen at a deep pool at an old
crossing of Piney Fork creek. near Dill
lonvale, Ohio. The bodies of Albert Ly-
kens, a cripple. and Alex. Jackson of
Smithfield were found on the banks of
the creek.
The Supreme Court of Colorado has
ordered u thorough investigation of cleo
ton frauds in Denver. and every ballot
box will be opened. The recount may
change the complexion of the Legislature
and result in the reelection of Governor
Peabody.
John G.. Entrekin. Jr, % years old,
son of John c. Entrekin. collector of in
ternaI revenue for the eleventh Ohio dis
trict. was found dead in bed in Chilli
cothe. He had committed suicide by
shooting. He was deputy collector of
the district.
Lewis Jones. colored, who is wanted
In Coffeyville. Kan-. on a murder charge,
gave himself up to the police in Cleve.
I~~ 81 ILL L. xol~o, hc,r- V@noc I'LL
that the murder was committed in
March. 1903. and that he fed for fear OF
being lynched.
j. w. Griffin, one of the wealthiest oil
operators in Lima, Ohio, and vice presi
dent of the Lima Trust Company, wal
electrocuted in his bath room there. HI
received a heavy shock, the contact be-
ing made by an iron register and an cleo
trio light chandelier.
Douglas Kenyon, cashier of the Rush
~sylvania. Ohio, Bank. was bound over tt
the grand jury on a charge OF inducing
by false representations School Treas
urer William Stevenson to transfer thu
school funds to that institution just {
few days before 1t failed.
A stone implement supposed to be
spade, evidently used by the mound build
ers. was found by a workman excavat
ing the edge of a mound on the Rolan,
stock farm. south of Granite City, Ill.
near the banks of Cahokia creek. 1t viii
be sent 10 the Smithsonian Institution
minnesota, by a vote of more thai
121, 900, abolished the grand jury system
ON the ground that it is unfair, expen
sive and a~ntiquated. The Legislator
asked for the vote, after examining tn
machinery of Wisconsin and North Da
kota, which nave eliminated the system
Baltimore and Ohio fast passenge
train, No. 3, w~est-bound, ran into
freight train at Defiance, Ohio, and En-
eineef James Collins and Fireman job
Baum were so badly scalded that the
lied soon afterward. Five Of the coache