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

gore. chief of staff of the French army.
arrived at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, the
other day to enter the infantry and cav
airy college.
The business meeting of the thirty
seventh annual session of the Lexington
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church, comprising Kentucky, Indiana,
Ohio and eastern Illinois, began in Co
lumbus, Ohio.
Because they feared 2 cut in their
wages eighty girls, employed in the Stand
ard Oil Company's candle works in Cleve-
land. ~inaugurated a strike. Following the
lead of the girls the men, employed In the
candle shops went out.
Because the words daily ledger were
used instead of daily journal in an in
dictment against Teller c.. III. Van Horne
of the wrecked State bank at Canton,
Ohio, the court dismissed the case, hold
ing the indictment faulty.
Robert Nicholson, 80 years old, a por-
ter at the Taylor hotel, Green and West
Madison streets, Chicago, fell into an eIe-
his sleep. He dropped three stories and
escaped with a slight cut on the wrist.
In Denver James Ducey, a dentist, who
was graduated about five years ago from
the University of Chicago, shot through
a window at his wife, who had announced
her intention to obtain a divorce, after
she refused to admit him to her apart
ment.
Col. G. j. Lydecker and Col. c.. r..
L.. B. Davis United States engineers. who
have been gathering statistics at Detroit
regarding the cost of a t~wenty-fve-foot
channel all around the great lakes, have
decided to report that the project be de-
layed.
Amid scenes of excitement almost I'M
precedented in Ohio legislative procedure
the Senate on Tuesday afternoon passed
the Aiken House DILL increasing the sa-
loon tax from $3.50 to 81, 900 and sealed
its action by voting down a motion to re-
consider.
which has been investigating the Denver
and Rio Grande wreck at Adobe returned
a verdict finding the telegraph operator
careless, but not malicious. and recon-
mending that no criminal charge be held
against the railroad.
Jacob kurtz, aged AZ, former superin-
tendent of the American Wine Company
in ~Sandusky, Ohio, hanged himself so
quietly in a room adjoining that in which
his family was sleeping that they knew
nothing of the deed until morning, when
the body was discovered.
In a shooting twenty-five miles from
Chickasha, 1. T., G.. w. Dean and a man
named Mullens were killed; Mart Ander-
son was shot twice in the neck and back
and is in a serious condition, and a mai
named Meeks is severely wounded. The
trouble arose over a division fence.
Daniel H. Spires, a well-known ex-slave
who purchased his freedom in 1851 for
the sun of 5000, died near wellsville, o.,
at the age of 103 years. The old man
earned the money with which he purchas-
ed his freedom by draying after coming
north. He leaves considerable property.
A bill granting immunity to witnesses
in prosecutions under the anti-trus. law,
which passed the House the other day,
was passed by the Ohio Senate. The bill
was urged by the Attorney General to as
sist the pending prosecutions against the
so-called bridge trust" Efforts have been
made for six years to secure the enact
ment of such a law.
The Ohio Senate by unanimous vote
passed the House bill by Mr.. Wertz ere
ating a State railroad commission and
providing for the regulating of freight
rates. The bill was amended in some i'm
portant particulars, the most important
being the insertion of an anti-pass provis-
ion. This prohibits any State or other
public officer accepting free t~ransporta-
ton under penalty of forfeiture of Office
and a fine of from $500 to $1,000.
At Caney, Kan. a burning gas well has
defeated a sixth attempt to smother the
flames. An eight-inch pipe was lowered
into the well and the fame confined to the
upper end of the pipe. A hood was plac-
ed about the mouth of the well and around
the pipe and then a effort was made to
close a valve in the top Of the pipe. As
this valve was clos d gas burst through
the hood below and soon the well was 4
mass of fame again. The hood was re-
moved and the well is burning as fercely
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