The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-05
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Of h Many.
A Big Fire in Chicago.
Fire which started in the building, 156
Van Buren, street, Chicago, occupied by
the Peninsula Stove Works, Quilted that
structure and spread to two buildings ad-
Joining, occupied by the Cash Buyers I'm
ion and the Zeno Gum Company. The loss
is estimated at S5OO,0O Six cottages, ten
anted by workingmen, also were destroyed
and the occupants had narrow escapes
from death, the wall of the seven STORY
Cash Buyers Union building falling,
crushing the houses like egg shells. Six
fremen were injured by flying bricks when
the walls fell, two of the men being so
badly hurt they were removed to a hospital.
Peculiar Accident in Maryland.
Cumberland md special: Wedged on
an engine pilot, Joseph Wood was carried
twenty-eight miles in a biting storm. Both
legs were broken and he was internally
hurt. He died after being removed to the
hospital in Martinsburg. Wood was struck
by a passenger train on the b. & o. road in
Knoxville while attempting to board a
train going in the opposite direction. Sew
eral persons saw the accident but the mans
body could not be found. A message was
sent ahead to look out. it being supposed
that the man was on the engine, but he
was not found until M~artinsville, twenty
eight miles away, was reached.
Foxy Waterman Came to Grief.
Miss Belle Reynolds, bOokkeeper at the
Warren Hill Company, the largest store in
ElkhaTt, Ind, while alone at the store
working on the books, was bound and
gagged after a horse blanket was thrown
over her head. The safe was robbed of
$3.50. She was released an hour later by
Paul Krohn. a night Waterman, who wrig-
gled on his back from the basement, where
he said he had been seized and bound by
two men. Miss Reynolds got a knife and
cut the rope from his wrists. When the
police arrived Krohn was accused of the
crime. He broke down and confessed, and
was jailed for larceny.
Cargo of Naphtha Exploded at Sea.
A dispatch from Hamilton, Bermuda,
SAYS: The Danish steamer Gallia, from
Hamburg December 8 for Savannah, ar
rived here with the survivors of the crew
of the Norwegian bark Marpesia. Captain
Jensen, from New York December 9 for
Cette. The Marpesia was blown up at sea
by the explosion of her cargo of naphtha
and eleven of her crew were killed. Seven
of the crew were saved. The l1arpesia
carried out Of the port of New York $4,000
gallons of naphtha. valued at S44 $50.
Six Skaters Drowned.
Clifford and Dan Kelly, brothers, aged Is
and "a respectively, broke through the ice
over the Mahoning river at Alliance, Ohio,
while skating and were drowned.
John and Ada Williams, aged IL and Ii,
children of Thomas Williams of Barber
ton, Ohio, and Kate and Elizabeth Morri-
son, aged Is and liz, daughters of E. J. Nor
ris0n of Kenmore, Ohio, were drowned
while skating on the canal about a mile
above Barberton.
Lynched in Arkansas.
Newport (Ark.) special: Louis Alwhite.
the alleged criminal assailant and muir
derer of Mrs. Rachael Kinakannon and
daughter, was lynched at the scene of the
crime by a mob of 700 men. Newton, the
1o-year-old son of Alwhite- who is a self
confessed accessory to his fathers alleged
crime. was not molested. The aged father
and husband of the murdered women was
carried to the scene OF the hanging.
Kinney Gets a Year in Prison.
After having been out twenty-three hours
= A. CA4x1, Hsra4 Nor-f m
turned a verdict declaring John j. Kinney,
the former Angola, Ind, banker, guilty OF
having received deposits at a time when he
knew his bank to be insolvent. Kinney's
punishment was fixed at n year in the
penitentiary.
whitley County Man Drowned at San
Francisco.
Fred Cole of Columbia City, Ind, a SOL
der in the regular army, was drowned in
San Francisco bay, while crossing from
the city to the presidio. The young man
was reared at Wolf Lake, Noble County,
and lived several years in Columbia City.
Costly Fire at Ann Arbor.
The high school building at Ann Arbor,
Mich, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $110,-
600: insurance, S4O,O 900. The school records
were saved. A stove in the basement of
the building is supposed to have caused
the fire.
Bride Must BE Rich.
William Bear, aged q, and Mrs. Judy
Diggins, aged II, were married at Gallipo-
lis. Ohio. The bride is the mother of four
teen children and boasts Of ifty-three
grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
A Hatfield Dies Wit. Shooting.
Elias Hatfield, noted fta is connection
With one of the bitterest or the mountain
tends, was killed i'm a tunnel near Cincin-
nati. Ohio. He was walking through the
tunnel when overtaken by a train. Hi
body was horribly mangled.
Bad Fire at Little Rock.
The Cunningham Milling Company's
plant and Little Rock Furniture Manufac-
turing Company, Little Rock, Ark, the
latter owned by Memphis, Tenn, people,
kere destroyed by fire. Loss estimated al
$4,000.
Loss ne to Fog.
Collisions .etween the great fleets O,
ocean-going steamships fog-bound il Brit
ish ports resulted in damages estimated
at $4,000, 900, and Iloyd's has postet
an appalling list of 6isasters. The los
to shipping due to the fog is said t.