The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-07-13
WESTERN.

The new city directory shows Chi
cagos population TO be 2,272.O00.
Damage estimated at 100000 was
caused by a fire in Union Hartnell oil
well No. at Santa Maria. Cal.
United States Senator John II. Mitch
ell has been convicted by jury in Port
land. Ore. Of completely in the extensive
Pacific coast land frauds.
The entire town of Carbonate, Colo,
has been destroyed By fire. The flames
were caused by the explosion of gasoline
in a tank and spread rapidly.
The funeral of John Hay was he'll at
Lake View cemetery, Cleveland, in the
presence of the family and President
Roosevelt and other high officials.
Charles Fleming Embrea, the novelist
and short-story writer, died in Santa
Ana. Cal, at the age of 80 years. Mr..
Embree formerly lived at Princeton. Ind.
Vernon Il. Martin, en- athlete, was
drowned while sailing q sloop in Lake
Minnetonka. near Minneapolis. He was
a student at the University of Minnesota.
Judge Gray, arbitrator between miners
and operators in Illinois, decided that the
expense of operation in the shot firers
law shall be shared equally by employers
and men.
A negro working at sawmill near
Riyes. Ark, who eloped with the 10
year-old daughter of white man, was
taken from the jail at Dumas and hang
ed by mob.
Mrs. Gertrude Dodgson of Portland,
hot nj hnS I'D
as Dodgson, and then killed herself
while walking along the street. Jealousy
was the motive.
The Supreme Court of Kansas has de-
clared unconstitutional the law passed
by the last Legislature providing for a
State oil refinery. Decision is held
great victory for the Standard company.
A bronze statue of Sacajawea, the In
dian bird woman, who, bearing OH her
back her infant child, guided the exp!0r-
ers Lewis and Clark through "Old Ore
gon," was unveiled at the exposition at
Portland.
Insurance Commissioner Host of Wis
consin has served notice on the COM
panies doing business in that State that
they must comply with the new law pro-
hibting deferred dividends for longer
period than five years.
Grea. Northern passenger train No. 3,
west bound. was wrecked at Spring
brook. n. q. All the passenger cars
were burned. Several persons were In
jured. but 50 far as could be learned
there were no fatalities.
The excessive rainfall in Kansas is
believed to have irreparably damaged the
wheat crop. especially in the central and
northern parts Of the State, where 1t is
still standing Some localities report
from FIVE to seven inches Of rain.
As the result of a street car wreck
Charles Henderson, aged 35. Of Wells
vile and Harry Green of East Liver
pool, Ohio, will die. The car became un-
mana geable on a steep hill and, Jump
ing the track, crashed into fence.
The struggle between unions and the
Typothetae resulted in 200 printers and
100 pressnien being locked out In San
Francisco. The demand for an eight
hour day was met by the employers, who
Insist that work shall be for nine hours.
Mrs. Anna Johnston at her home in
Omaha, in attempting to light a gasoline
stove mistook leaking gasoline for water
and applied match, causing terrific
explosion which resulted in the womans
death and the partial destruction Of her
home
Fred Ross. who was knocked out By
Jack Donnelly in the sixteenth round of
q prize fight in Aberdeen, Wash, is
dead. His neck was dislocated and a
blood clot gathered on the brain. Dom
nelly Is from st. Louis and Ross from
Denver.
Chief Meminger Of the Milwaukee fire
department died, aged As years. He sue
ceeded James Foley two years ago, when
the latter died after he had inhaled acid
fumes at a FIRE which cost Eve lives.
Meminger's death was due to snhaling
similar fumes.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany's freighter Montara has arrived at
San Francisco from Copper Is!au6 and
other Russian ports with cargo of val
liable furs- The MoDtara's freight occu-
pied only two staterooms, bxt Is Waived
ct more than $500. 00C.
The First National Bank Of Topeks,
Kan. Of which G. ]. Dcvlin Is the pr;n-