The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-05-11

tc &c the widow Of Senator Fair, died
IN sts Mount Pleasant Qowa) hospital
for The insane. She had been sent there
from Burlington, where she was adjudg-
ed insane from using opium.
Residents of Oberlin, Ohio, are prepar-
ing a protest against the proposed ap-
pointment as postmaster of a son Of
President Beckwith of the defunct ODER
lin bank, whose collapse was due TO its
| relations with Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick.
stantly killed in a ball game at Gillette.
Ark. He was at bat, and was struck
just above the heart by a pitched ball.
He fell and expired. The pitcher, Oscar
Champion, was warm friend of Strobe
The Middleton bank in Waverly, Mo-,
has failed for $4,000. Secretary of
State Swanger has received notice that
the cashier, E. H. Lewis. is accused of
disappearing with $4,000 of the funds.
The Secretary of State has closed the
bank
Word from James Wilson's old Iowa
home indicates that the Secretary of Ag-
riculture is to be married again in June.
The name of his fiancee is being kept
secret even from his boyhood friends, al
though the prospective bride is knowc to
be department clerk.
Fire destroyed twenty-five stables at
the st. Louis Fair Association race track
and resulted in the death of twelve or
more horses. The principal loser is
Frank Gering of st. Louis, whose entire
string, with the exception of Floral
Wreath, was destroyed.
Edward J. Smith, the defaulting tax
collector of San Francisco, CAL, was
arrested at the Union station in ST.
Louis, where he was evidently expecting
the arrival of some person from the
West. Smiths defalcations are said to
he somewhat in ey~ IS of $250,O00.
Chicago, New 'ork, st. Louis and
Kansas City capt lists are said to be be-
hind the Produs .rs' and Pipe Line Re
filming Company, Incorporated in Okla
homa City, Okla, with S2O,O00,OO0 CAPT
tai. 1t is proposed to build a pipe line
to the gulf and operate re6neries.
Judge Sanborn of the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals at st. Paul sus-
tanned the decision of Judge Mcpherson
in the famous Burnes estate case at st.
Joseph, Mo. Marjorie Burnes and her
mother, Mrs. Fanny Byram Burnes of
Chicago, get $2,4OO,OOO of the SS,OOO,OOO
estate.
+. j. Smiley, secretary of the Kansas
Grain Dealers Association, was placed
in Jail in La Crosse, Kan, to serve a
ninety days sentence of the United
States Supreme Court for the violation
of the antitrust law. This is the first
instance of a member of a trust being
sent to Jail in Kansas
The town of Round Lake, Mimi, was
hit by a tornado. The tracks of the Rock
Island railroad were washed away and
buildings damaged. The tornado cut a
narrow path through the center of the
village, destroying four homes, black
smith shop and several barns. Mrs. Mey-
ers was dangerously injured.
Capt. w. A. Raibourn, Twenty-ninth
infantry, U. s. A., committed suicide at
Fort Douglas, Utah, after making
murderous assault on Lieut.. William III.
Point. also of the Twenty ninth infantry.
Capt. Raibourn had been drinking heav-
lily and the tragedy was an outgrowth
of his arrest on a charge of drunkenness.
While taking up the brick walls of an
old cistern at Fort Madison, Iowa, Con-
tractor James j. Maley discovered 4 bag
containing $11 800 in gold coin, also two
casks of wine. the wood of which was so
badly rotted that the slaves fell to pieces
as soon as the dirt around them was re-
moved, allowing the contents to go 10
waste.
Two bandits gave a party of New
England "schoolmarms" and their attend
ants. thirty in all, touch of far western
life when they held up two Lick Observ-
atory stages and a surrey of the Mount
Hamilton Stage Company near San Jose.
Col, and robbed the passengers of all
their worldly possessions at the points of
shotsuns.
James Hunter, a farmer living near
Bridgeman, Mimi, put some dynamite
with which he intended to blow out some
stumps in the kitchen stove oven to
thaw. He then forgot about it and went
to town. Shortly afterward an explo-
sion wrecked the house and killed mis-
wife and two children. Hunter became
violently insane as a result.