The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-12

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Wash, was seiltenced to five years in the
Uaited States p%enitentiary at McNeill's
Island for making false reports to the
Comptroller OF the Currency and of jug
Cling the funds of depositors to forward
a mining speculation.
Immense new coal fields, comprising
100000 acres in Colfax county, New Mex
leo, nave just been bought by the st.
Louis, Rocky Mountain and Pacific Rail
road Company from the Dutch syndicate
which owns the old Maxwell land grant of
100000 acres in Colfax county, for a
price said to be $15,OO0,OOO.
County Prosecutor Hiram NJ. Rulison
paid into the county treasury in Cincin-
natl S214,99S. 76, being the money collect
ed by him from X. X. Hynicka, Tilden
K. French and John II. Gibson, and paid
to them as ''gratuities" by bankers while
they were treasurers of Hamilton county
under the rule of Boss Cox.
In order to drive a rival real estate
dealer out of business, X. II. Butterfeld,
a prominent wealthy man in Stevens
Point, Wis.,, hired two burglars to steal
valuable induces from the Office of Robert
Mcdonald. The burglars confessed and
Butterield was convicted of burglary. He
has been sentenced to prison.
Because Gov. j. H. Mickey refuses to
pay tuition his four children have been
excluded from the Lincoln, Neb.. public
schools. He has filed a mandamus suit
aga INST the Lincoln school board to secure
reinstatement of the children. All State
officers likewise have refused to pay fu.-
ten.
As a number of fashionably dressed
women were approaching a theater in st.
Louis some loafer hidden by one of the
buildings spit tobacco juice on the white
dress of every woman that passed him.
The. women did not notice the condition
unit; they had reached the theater. Gowns
worth in the aggregate thousands of dol
lars were ruined.
In the District Court in Vermilion, S.
L., Elmer Johnson and Richard Bruesch-
weller pleaded guilty to the charge Of
arson and were sentenced to five years in
States prison. The young men. who
were university students, fired three old
Buildings in Vermilion last summer and
said they did it to improve the appear
anoe of the town.
A general increase in wages for all the
elevated railway employees in Chicago will
be asked as the result of the action taken
at a meeting of the union. The Changes
asked for range from ~ to 5 cents an
hour, according to the class of labor. An
eight-hour day instead of a twelve-hour
day is to be demanded for ticket agents
and platform men.
The Illinois Supreme Court nulliied
the primary law passed at the last ses-
son Of the Legislature, declaring the act
unconstitutional on the ground that it is
| special legislation, giving Cook county one
law and another to the other counties of
the State. Gov. Deneen has called a spe-
ciai session of the General Assembly to
enact another statute to replace the one
found void.
Since the beginning of March a block OF
ground bounded by Gilman, Esther and
Sulphur avenues, in the southwestern por-
ton Of St. Louis, has been slowly sinking
into a supposed subterranean cavern, un-
IL it is now fifteen feet below it's o~rigina;
level. Several families have been forcel
to move from their homes, buildings have
fallen down and damage has resulted 20
the extent of $4,000. Ten homes that
are located around what is now the edge
of the depression are in great danger.
Miss Hazel Miesse, 10 years old, was
fatally burned at the family home in the
country near Lancaster, Ohio. She start
ed for the cellar with a lighted lamp in
ber hand and fell downstairs. The lamp
was dashed to pieces and her hair and
clothing were saturated with burning oil,
With her clothing enveloped in flames shs
rushed up the stairs. Her mother and
brother dragged her out of doors and at
I npted to e~xtinguish the flames by roll
ing her in the snow. Her brother was Sc
verely burned.
Physicians kept Joseph II. Wilson alive
for three days after he had taken poison
to end his life, and thus prevented the ac-
corp,ishment of his wish to die before his
F, $1,000 insurance policy expired. Wilson
was formerly a wealthy leather dealer at
70) Main street, Cincinnati, but suffered
reverses. Because of his financial diff
~culties his insurance was permitted to
lapse March %. 1t was then extended to
Apri. 1. Finding he was unable to pay,
Wilson took laudanum on Friday. he
left a letter to his wife, explaining the
| circumstances and directing what should
be tone with the insurance money. The
doctors kept him alive until the day after
the insurance policy had expired.
Charging that her husband, Rev. Peter
Rhynard, a Baptist minister, who former.
ly resided in Covington, KY, sold his son
TO a man at Ashley, Mich, for so, Mrs
Rhynard has begun suit in the Circuit
Court in Grand Rapids, Mich, for the re.
covery of the child. She names her hus-
band as defendant, claiming that he stole
the boy from her a few days before be
sold him. The I.an who bought the boy
died and Rev. Mr.. Rhynard again secured
possession of his son, taking him to Hi
nois. Since leaving Kentucky Rev. Mr.
Rhynard has toured Michigan, preaching
fror pulpits in various parts of the State
and establishing for himself a reputation
as one of the best preachers in the State
The nature of the trouble that has beer
brewing among the Apache captives n
Fort Sill, incident to which is the threat
of the Indians forcibly to break ava,
from the post, is explained at the Wa
Department in Washington as the result
of the refusal of the authorities to let TIT
Indians go on the road with a wild ives
show. These Indians under their old chic
Geronimo nave been technical captives a
the army post for many years past. Las
year many Of the Indians were permitte,
to join a wild west show which travele,
over the country. When they came bacl
to the post it was found that many 0
them had learned to gamble and hal
picked up other bad habits This yea
permits were refused except in the case o
Geronimo himself.
Mrs. Martin Vanthof was burned L
death in Grand Rapids, Mich. Her nus
band is held at the county Jail pendir,
the order Of Coroner Leroy. The a.
year-old son OF the couple was aroused b
his mothers cry and rushed downstair
to find her body or tie floor surrounde
by flames and his father running aroun
the room apparently demented. He say
that his father held him and would no
let him go to his mothers assistance