The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-05-04
WESTERN.

Fire which started in the City Hotei
of New York Mills. Mimi, destroyed sew
eral buildings.
Plans have been completed for the
erection in Kansas of another indepen
dent oil refinery.
The teamsters' strike in Chicago has
spread. taking in express and department
store drivers 1t is said that 25,0U0 men
are out.
Salt Lake City bonds worth $4,000.
have mysteriously disappeared and the
city officials are making an effort to To-
cate them.
Reports from many counties of Ne
braska indicate that the Hessian fly is
busy and many wheat fields will be de-
vastated by the pest.
Judge Crumpacker before the United
States Supreme Court assaulted the Chi
cago Board of Trade and holds it no bet
ter than bucket shops.
The Solar Carbon works at Ravenna.
Ohio. owned by the National Carbon
Company of Cleveland, burned. Loss
$4,000. insurance $4,000.
The jury in the ease of James Oliver.
who killed ]. G. Casey on March 10 last.
acquitted the defendant at Wichita.
Kan, on the ground of insanity.
Frank g. Bigelow, defaulting bank
president of Milwaukee, has filed a petit
ton in bankruptcy. scheduling liabilities
of 1927 900 and assets of 81, 4S9.SO0
Violations of the Sunday closing law
in st. Louis County, outside the city linn
its, were so open that Governor Folk
is expected to send the militia there to
enforce the law.
The city directory of st. Louis, just
out, contains 2S5.716 names, on (which
the directory company makes an estimate
of 4,290 as the population at the be-
ginning of 1905.
Governor Mcdonald of Colorado has
signed the anti-bOycott bill passed by the
Legislature at the urgent demand of the
Citizens Alliance. 1t was bitterly fought
by labor organizations.
BY his mothers will, Harry Clawson
of Cincinnati will have the income from
$4,000 for life if he keeps sober and be-
HAYES himself for three years. If he
does not he will have 50 a week for
life
William Patton, the union iron molder
who shot and killed Samuel Weakley, a
nonunion molder, on Oct. 4. 1904, entered
a plea of guilty to the charge of man
slaughter in Cincinnati and will be SEN
fenced later.
The excitement in Milwaukee banking
circles caused by the defalcation of
Frank G. Bigelow, late president of the
First National Bank, has entirely sub
sided and business has again assumed
normal conditions.
A fatal duel was fought midway be-
tween Willow City and Calmer postoffice,
N. D., between William Clark and John
Coldmeyer. The men had been drinking
and quarreled. Clark was killed and
Coldmeyer badly injured.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Pfeil were
burned tc death in the destruction of
their home at Riley, Kan. The police
advance the theory that the couple were
murdered and the house set on fire to
hide the crime Pfeil was a retired
| farmer.
AdOlph Pricken, under indictment in
Philadelphia for embezzlement and for
gerry, was arrested in the Bismarck
hotel in Chicago. Two hours later the
prisoner left in custody of a detective. 1t
is said Pricken's populations will reach
$4,000
George Ashcroft, a wealthy farmer of
Coshccton, Ohio, fell dead across the
foot Of his bed when he arose to put ex-
ira covering over his wife, who had been
| ILL., In less than three hours. she, too
died from the shock. Both were born on
the same day.
| Charles A. Senior was granted a new
trial at Akron, Ohio, on the ground thai
the evidence in The case showed diff
ferent crime from that charged, which
was that of procuring $1,000 from thu
| Second National Bank of Akron under
false pretenses.
Referee in Bankruptcy Harold Rem
ington at Cleveland, Ohio, made an order
directing Trustee Sullivan of the Auit
man Company to sell thep liant OF tn
corporation Mt Canton on May for no
less than the appraised value, which Il
about $25O,OOO
West bound freight train No. 81, OF
the Union Pacific, was buried by rocl
slide a few feet west. of Edison tunnel
100 miles west of Cheyenne, Wyo. In
loo foot Edison bore is dIed witt
! wrecked cars, and three lives are know
to have been lost
Mangled by spIintered glass and crush
ed under broken timbers. thirty person