The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-03-23

gave birth to twins. She was attended
by two physicians who happened to be
among the passengers, and mother and
children arrived in Los Angeles in good
health the other day.
Hounded by loan sharks to whom he
had assigned his wages for long period
IN advance, and finally discharged be-
cause of this by his employers, Frank
Durham, an engineer on the lines of the
illinois Central railroad. committed sui
eide in his home in Chicago. Durham.
who was AZ years old, locked himself in
bedroom and turned on the gas.
An order has been received from the
Prairie Oil Company to take up all pipe
line laterats off the Standard six-inch
main west of the Santa he tracks be-
tween Humboldt and Chanute, Kansas,
except one. This is a practical abandon
ment of the field and means withdrawal
OF market from all companies in the
Chanute field whose oil tests thirty de-
grees.
FIRE, believed to have been of incen-
diary origin, destroyed the entire busi-
ness section of Shannon City, Iowa, en-
failing loss of over 100000, partially
insured. Two business blocks, Wilson's
and Fishers, and a number of smaller
business houses. including Logan's drug
store, the Sheldon Sons newspaper
office, barber shop and the telephone
exchange, were burned The fire started
IN the Wilson block.
The body of young woman about %
years old was found near the obscure
street known as Lovers Lane" in Gin
clnnati, where the bodies of three other
young women who had been attacked
and murdered We're found few months
ago at short intervals. The police be-
lleye the murdered girl found at this
time is victim of the same man for
whom they have been searching. Her
clothing was of fine quality, and she had
died from a stab wound ovec the heart.
The murderer of the girls never has been
discovered.
owners of rafting steamers on thu
Mississippi river are either remodeling
them or are selling them for other pur-
poses. The business of this craft is so
far gone that there are now many more
boats than are needed to handle the
business. 1t is estimated that during
the coming summer there will he less
down, while in past years the run has |
been many times that amount. One by |
one the mills are closing, some of them |
In Clinton, Iowa, having abandoned saw,
ing permanently.
Opium placed in a cigar given him by |
a young woman with whom he quarreled |
Is believed by the police of Flint Mich,
to have caused the death of William S.
Goodspeed. 10 years old, an employee Of
the Flint wagon works. DIR. j. G. Nc,
Gregor testified at the coroner's inquest
that the youths death was due to opium
poison. DR.. Samuel b. Given, in whose
)ffice Goodspeed was taken i'll. testified
he young man had said he believed mis-
condition was the result of smoking
agar. The young woman with whom
Toodspeed is said to have quarreled viii
De subpoenaed as a witness.
John White, an employee at the North
American Chemical Company's plant in
Bay City, Mich, discovered unconscious
Ind bleeding near his work the othes
light, on recovering consciousness told q
sensational story of half-hour's battle
With an unknown masked lunatic. who
ttacked him with a butcher knife,
Y hite states that the masked man en-
cred the room where he was working
md told him plainly that he was going
kill him. He then produced butcher
nife and took after him. White jumped
yer large potash pans, followed by his
ursuer. Three times the weapon was
rought down on the fugitive, once on
he fieshy part of his right leg. another
lme across the left arm and a third
troke cut large hole in his cap. White
nally made a dash for the door, closely
ursued. The man with the mask fols
owed him 300 yards and then skunk
way in the darkness.