The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-02-23

Company of Newark. He was accused
of having forged a receipt for deposits.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas has signed the
bill appropriating 100000 for a State
oil refinery to fight the Standard Oil
Company, and the House passed meas
ure making the corporations pipe lines
available for transporting the State pro-
| duct
Eddie Hanlon Of San Francisco and
Tommy Mowatt of Chicago did not fight
at Oshkosh, Wis.,, the other night, orders
from Gov. La Toilette preventing the
battle. The hall was packed when it was
announced that the battle would not take
place.
Gov. Haniy of Indiana has signed the
Moore bill, which makes a remonstrance
against an individual application for a
liquor license or against all applications
effective for two years when signed by
majority of the voters of a ward or
township.
Claude s. Sniveley, a prominent attor-
ney in the Office of Washburn, Mitchell
& Bailey, pitched headong from a fifth
story windo " of the Lonsdale building in
Duluth and was killed. No one was in
! not known.
Four persons were found dead from
suffocation at 5021a Central avenue,
Cleveland. 1t is supposed that fumes
from a natural gas stove resulted in their
asphyxiation. The dead were Mr.. and
Mrs. George Nolan and Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles III. Heller.
John O'Neil, sick in bed, under the Gus
tody of United States officers, charged
with violating postal laws in connection
with the Christy Syndicate Investment
Company. which operated in st. Louis,
committed suicide at Hot Springs, Ark.
He blew the top of his head off with a
revolver.
Eli Dunn, one of the suspected Leb-
anon, Ore, bank robbers, has been iden-
tilted by colored Pullman car porter
as one Of the men who held I'D ond
| robbed the passengers in the Pullman
coach attached to the Oregon Railroad
and Navigation Company train several
weeks ago.
In Minneapolis fire destroyed the inte-
rior of a three-story brick building on
Hennepin avenue, the first two floors of
which were occupied by j. d. Vivian as
a carriage and harness store, and the
third floor by the Bank Protection Com
pany. The loss Is estimated between
$4,000 and $4,000
Three masked highwaymen lying in
wait upon the front veranda of the resi-
dence of DIR. Philip Mueller, In Mime
apolis, leveled their revolvers at the re-
turning physician and his coachman,
Emil Roggatz, shot the latter through
the abdomen and robbed the doctor and
his coachman of $50 in money.
Robert Wood, 19year-old son of Con-
tractor r. III. Wood, died in Lima, Ohio,
after illness of six months intense
suffering caused by the sting of bee,
followed by blood poisoning. For the
past two months the lips of the young
man, which had swollen and curled up
over his nasal organ and down upon the
chin, but clasped in the center. had to
be pried open to allow him TO partake of
food.
Continued cold and snow which prac-
tically put an end to business and tied up
all trains entering Des Moines and trav-
ersing the State placed the entire city
and State in peril of fuel famine. Only
one dealer in Des Moines had hard coal
for sale the other day, and that at a
4rice almost above the reach of the con-
sumner. Drifts between the city and the
coal fields rendered teaming almost i'm
possible. thereby cutting off the soft coal
supply. In many sections of the State
farmers are burning corn for fuel Hun
dreds OF Iowa towns isolated because of
the stagnant condition of the railroad
service, experienced actual suffering.
Fuel advanced to a considerable extent.
Des Moines charitable associations issued
an appeal to the public for aid In the
way of fuel and food