The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-05

Wichita has an epidemic of smallpox.
There is a great demand for farm labor
ers in Kansas.
Kansas farmers say this is the year to
expect the 17-year locusts.
The Kansas white population has in
creased 10000 the past five years.
Jerry Simpsons will has been probated.
1t shows his estate to be worth $4,000.
The Passmore Paper Company at Butte.
Mont, suffered a loss Of 100000 by fire.
A vast amount of corn and cotton will
be planted in Indian territory this year.
The Kickapoo Indians want to dispose
of their reservation in Brown county
Kansas.
Gov. Pattison of Ohio continues to i'm
he will recover.
An Oklahoma money shark was arrest
cd for charging a Cheyenne Indian 1900
per cent for q loan.
Old river men predict that the Missis-
sippi will be open to navigation earlier
this year than usual.
A hunter in western Kansas killed a
black eagle that measured IS inches from
tip to tip Of the wings.
A road was oiled at Hutchinson, Kan-.
a few months ago as a test case. So far
It has proven satisfactory.
The Bank of Victor, at Victor, Colo-
IN the Cripple Greek district, was robbed
Of $40, 900 during Wednesday night.
Morris Buck, who shot and killed Mrs.
ConGoId tho unffo ~ $ho al oufIItonoiro
was sentenced in Los Angeles to be hang
ID June 1.
The Introduction of testimony in the
proceedings to unseat Senator Reed
Smoot Of Utah was concluded shortly be-
fore noon Tuesday.
Hundreds Of families In Waterloo and
Cedar Falls, Iowa, were made hopeless
by the breaking of ~levees, which flooded
large portions Of both cities.
Mrs. w. T. Bull, wife Of a New York
surgeon and formerly the wife of James
q. Blaine, Jr, was robbed of $137 and
Jewels worth $500 at a st. Louis hotel.
Despondent because she could not get
work, Gertrude Lake or Shand, a stenog-
rapher, formerly of Pittsburg, committed
suicide in Salt Lake City BY taking car
bolic acid.
/ st. Louis stockholders fled a petition
for a receiver for the Consolidated Troup
Mining Company, alleging that they were
induced to subscribe for stock by false
representations.
Opal, the 20-year-old daughter of J.. s.
Burney, a farmer, near West Union, Ohio,
was fatally shot. She was cleaning her
brothers overcoat when a revolver In the
pocket was discharged.
Judgments were entered at Cincinnati
against former county treasurers, charged
with receiving '~.gratuities" from banks in
which public funds were deposited,
amounting to $211,174.
Henry Hughes Of Fremont, Ohio, the
first of eighteen bridge agents and cor
porations to be tried On a joint indict-
ment charging conspiracy in restraint of
trade, was found guilty.
Flora Watts, alias Jones, aged 16
years, was found guilty of m~anslaughter
in Columbus, Ohio. She was indicted
for second-degree murder for the killing
Of James Jones on Christmas night.
A temporary receiver for the Supreme
Congress of Samaritans was appointed at
Elkbart, ind, Attorney General Miller
holding that the order, which has 5000
members, chiefly in Indiana, is insolvent.
Charging wastefulness, Robert II. Fitz-
gerald of San Francisco has sued the Mu-
tual Reserve Fund Life Association, now
the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Com
pany, for the surrender value of a $4,000
policy.
By the collapse of a scaffolding around
the tower of the new st. Mary's church
in Dayton, Ohio, Charles Sanders and
George Ellison, stone workers, fell 100
feet to the ground and were fearfully
mangled.
Jean Bougere, a second lieutenant in
: H. Second Hussars, q son of Gen. Bou-