The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-17
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initiative and referendum is destined to
sweep away graft and cure civic ills.
| Orrin W.sPotter. steel trust millionaire
of Chicago, has welded Mrs. Bell. for
mer hairdresser. and sailed for Europe.
Eugene c. Schmitz, the union labor
mayor of San Francisco, was beaten at
the primaries by the reform Republicans.
Thomas Taggart closed his big casino
at French Lick, Ind. when it was re-
ported that Gov. Hanly was planning an
attack on it.
! Charles f. Pfister, the Milwaukee mag
nate indicted on graft charge, has be-
gun civil suit against his accusers as
| an act of defiance.
| Heavy tornado losses at Kokomo, Ind.
have revived discussion of the rate, COM
| pany representatives alleging that it is
| wholly inadequate.
! Mrs. Hannah Baker of Salinesville.
Ohio. is recovering from whooping cough
contracted from her grandchildren. Mrs.
Baker is So years old.
| Discussions among the stockholders
started a run on the Denver savings
bank. and the officers pat the 10 per
cent rule in force at once.
| George Johnson and William James
were killed by lightning near Gushing.
| o. T. The men were standing under
tree which the lightning struck.
| Boston was selected as the meeting
| place for the twenty-frst annual conyen-
| ton of fne American Philatelic Associa-
ton at the session in Minnea polls.
| The English walnut crop of Ventura
i 70; H.. Ill
at most two-thirds, of that of last year
when $50 carloads were shipped.
Chicaso's big teamsters' strike, for
which Shea. in his speech, accepted re-
sponsibility, cost $11O.G20 according to
the union finance committees report.
Mayor DUNES residence in Chicago
i was entered by bold burglars, who car
ried away SO worth of property after
being frightened by one of the servants.
| Clyde Cochran had a vivid dream in
/ Springfield, Ohio, that the house was on
Ere the other night and jumped from the
second floor to the ground. He was badly
injured.
William Allen White, in discussing the
| visits of Lawson and Jerome to the
West, says they found a satisfied people
i conditions>is in the East.
j Elford Preston, the last survivor of the
II twenty men who met in Philadelphia on
May %, 1854, and organized the Repub-
lican party, was buried Friday in Sum-
ner. Iowa. He was IS years old.
The snake car of the Gaskill Carnival
circus caught fire while near Brownsville,
Neb., and the big boa and minor snakes
escaped TO the bushes, where the keepers
had hard time to capture them.
: Inga Hansen, convicted of perjury
some months ago, in Chicago, was taken
to the penitentiary Monday, her condi-
ton being such that she remained in
an invaiid's chair during the trip.
Charles Hinckle, Jr., son of Charlie;
Hinckle, wealthy retired merchant of
Radnor, Pa, has committed suicide at
t Los Angeles, CAL, by taking cyanide of
I potassium. Dependency is the supposed
e motive.
Q Following the run on the Denver Saw
Q ings Bank, Denver, Colo, the Western
Bank, State institution, closed its
DOORS Leonard B. Imboden. the Texas
plunger," is said to be responsible for the
Z failure.
Genera, Joseph II. Lyon of Leaven-
worth. Kan. has been appointed tempo
rary major general of the uniform rank
knights of Pythias, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Gen. James T.
J Carna IAN.
The Oregon anti-scalping law regard
| ing railroad tickets has been sustained
by the State Circuit Court. and nineteen
: Portland brokers, who were arrested
. have given up the contest and will go out
\ of business.
Oscar Benson, Chicago policeman
; shot and killed Matthias Manner, wound
= ed q clerk in Manners store, and com
mitted suicide. the tragedy following
Manners charge that Benson had stoler
: three watches.
Al William Warner, United States Sena
: | tor from Missouri, was caught in a som
: nambulistic walk on a Burlington sleeper
early the other morning. He was stand
| ing off an applicant for Office when awak
ened by the porter.
: William e. Curtis writes that one o.
: the most serious objections to the admis
|. sion of New Mexico to the Union 10 tina
! | considerable portion of the territorl
!. | il held in large tracts by corporation
! | and individual owners.
81 Attorney General Moody ordered tn
| United States attorneys in tire Northwes
| to investigate the interruption of the tele
graph service as result Of the strike o
D telegraphers on the Great Northern an
+ Northern Pacific railroads.
II A destructive hailstorm passed owe
Z Bottineau, McHenry, Rolette, Fierce AM
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