The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-07-17
ADDITIONAL LOCAL

w. S. r. Smith left this morning
for trip through Wisconsin and
Minnesota in the interest of the
Clizbe Manufacturing Company.
The indianapolis Sentinel says po-
lite society in the progressive east has
adopted monkey pets as one of its Ia
test fads. All of which is result of
the tireleSS search for ancestry which
marks the American aristocracy.
VIM. Hetrick, a demented inmate
of the Noble county infrmary, started
a fire in brush heap and then lay
down in it to commit suicide. After the
flesh on one arm had been burned to
the bone Hetrick changed his mind
and concluded to live. Surgeons have
amputated the burned arm.
Mrs. Deborah VAIL, of Marion,
Ind, brought two children from an
institution in Grant county to Bright
side and visited two days with old
friends i'm this city. Mrs. VAIL was
the daughter of the late Samuel
Moore, of this city, and her husband
is the clerk of Grant county.
The Laporte county commissioners
will hold special session on July 21st,
when they will act on the petition fol
a big ditch through Laporte and
Starke counties to the Porter county
line. This ditch will be one of the
largest ever constructed in the Kan
kakee district and will cost about
800, 900.
The stone from the abutments OF
the old railroad river bridge, which
the company is selling, finds ready
sale and is being hauled away in large
qualities. 1t makes excellent fOundl-
ton for buildings and is cheaper than
brick. The company is rebuilding the
abutments with sand stone, which is
more durable.
Samuel Kaufman. of Shipshewanna.
and Mary Ann Chupp, of Goshen,
minors who desired to get married on
the Fourth, went to the clerks office
with parents consent. and Mayor
Deahl married them. Kaufman s
father wrote as follows: Dear sir
Please will you give me my son Sam
uel difficult TO marry as it is all
right to me-"
Several hundred men armed with
guns and with pack of dogs made al
Intellectual effort Sunday to track and
kill the wolves which were driven out
of the Kankakee district within the
last few weeks by the high water
The wolves are in the southern tiel
of townships in Laporte county and
the northwestern part of Starke county
and have proved largely on sheep and
chickens.
Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 at the
Pennsylvania depot, f. Bowman assist
ant foreman of the Work train D.,
while throwing long ties from the
cars caught his right hand be-
tween the cars and ties crushing anG
splitting the thumb. He was taker
to the office of the company surgeon,
where Dr. Aspinall dressed the injury
and afterwards sent him to his home
at Valparaiso.
Persons who read the accounts OF
the YOUNGSTOWN mine disaster probably
noticed the use of two words, fire.
damp and afterdamp. The first call
ed by chemists marsh gas, is explosive
and infammable, and being lighter
than air is apt TO accumulate along
the upper parts of a mine. Afterdaml
is the result of an explosion of the
other. 1t is odorleSs and Suffocating
and, being heavier than air, sinks t
the floor.
George AIDE, the humorist. who i:
well known in Plymouth, has moved
to New York. He grew to manhood
in Newton county. has been employed
on several Chicago papers. and hi.
comic opera, 1.-The Sultan of Sulu'
has attracted much attention. Hi!
latest output is called Peggy O
Paris" and will be produced in New
York. His brother, Joseph AIDE, anC
his sister. Mrs. j. G.. Davis, were resi-
dents of Plymouth several years ant
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