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

Three men were burned to death In a
hotel fire in Duluth.
Thomas Gahan, prominent as Chi
cago Democratic leader. died suddenly
Sunday.
Bryan, died at the Bryan home, near
Lincoln, Neb., He was 81 years old.
The severe storms that swept over st.
Louis and vicinity late Thursday resulted
in the death of two persons and injuries
TO eight. and considerable damage TO
property.
Former State Senator Harry Bunkers
of San Francisco was convicted Of ac-
cepting a bride to grant immunity to
certain corporations which were to be in
yestigated.
Bandits who held up Fred Hacker in
Chicago not only robbed him of his
money, but stripped him of all his cloth
ing but his trouser underwear and
stockings.
Special Police Officer Rafferty, was
perhaps fatally shot by one of three
burglars whom he surprised in the Office
of the Brennan lumber yards in st.
Paul, MINI.
The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld
the constitutionality of the Brannock dis
trict local-optior law in the test case of
Mayor Jeffrey of Columbus VS.. City So
licitor Butler.
Gov. La Toilette of Wisconsin has
signed the anti-graft bill, which forbids
"tips' of any description. All employees
are prohibited from requesting or accept
any gratuities.
The factory and wholesale house of
the Atchison (Kan.) Saddlery Company
was burned. 1t is supposed the building
was struck by lightning. Loss $125, 900,
insurance $4,000.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
Southwest Limited train west bound was
wrecked at Ottumwa, Iowa. Engineer
Harry T. bikes was killed and Fireman
Claude +. Warren injured.
T. NJ. Howell. a former newspaper
man, arrived in Denver the other day
with rich samples of ore found near Vel
low Jacket creek in Idaho. One piece of
Goat assayed S72, 900 gold a ton.
Joseph Zimmerman, "a years old,
florist of Ocean Park, Cal, lost his life
and a party of FIVE prominent people who
accompanied him have narrowly escaped
death from drowning at San Pedro.
Anton Wierl shot and probably fatally
injured his son James, aged %, at st.
Paul, Mimi James returned home about
midnight and found his father, who had
been drinking, breaking the furniture.
A deposit more than thirty feet in
length Of what has been tested as gold
was found by farmers while digging
along the broken sward creek in the Lar
rick farm east of Upper Sandusky, Ohio.
Willard Johnson, George Teats and
Carl Lindquist were drowned by the
capsizing of a boat in Cutoff lake, near
Omaha. Their two companions chung to
the bottosa of the boat and were rescued.
Near Las Vegas. n. NJ, Engineer z.
w. Davis and Fireman j. w. Swisher
were killed in the explosion of the boiler
of an engine hauling a heavy Santa Fe
work train. The engine was blown to
pieces.
Announcement is made of the gift of
81 ,0OO,O 200 to Mccormick Theological
Seminary in Chicago by three members
of the Mccormick family, DR.. ]. G. X.
Mcclure to be president of remodeled in
stitution.
Isaac n. Perry. former Chicago bank
president, has been acquitted Of the
charge of setting fire to the Chicago Car
and Locomotive plant at Hegewisch last
October. The jury remained cut only
thirteen minutes
Three persons were killed and six In
jured by the collapse of q three-story
brick building at Thirteenth and Grace
streets, Omaha, during q storm. The
building was occupied by the Omaha
Casket Company.
John 8. Bradstreet, q well-known resi-
dent Of Minneapolis, is in St. Barnabas
hospital suffering from fractured skull
and numerous cuts and bruises as q re-
suit of fall over 1C-foot embankment
in big automobile.
4 triple tragedy was enacted at Wind
scr, No. resulting In the murder Of
Rufus Bruce and Mrs. John Lynch and
the suicide Of John Lynch. The tragedy
was the outcome of Lynch's jealousy of
his 22-year-old wife.
Mrs. Nett1o Craven Fair. who claimed