The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-07-21

G. r. Miller, of Waterloo, Ind, the
man who was hurt while making the
high dive with the carnival at SYRIA
cuse, Kosciusko county, July I, is dead,
and two women were fatally injured
while looping the loop at jamestown,
n. Y. this week.
A recent raise In the insurance rates
at Argos has stirred up the people of
that town. and they are seriously con-
sidering the organization of a mutual
insurance company, modelled on the
plan OF the Farmers Mutual. to in
clude all the towns of the county.
OR" Dowie has issued orders that
the Zion city girls must not flirt with
the Chicago soldiers who flock to
Camp Logan rifle range near Zion city
and visit the town to see what it looks
like. If the young woman do not
mind they must leave Zion city.
In an accident, said to be the first
of the kind ever known in Chicago,
Franklin Reed, thirteen years old. son
Of William S. Reed, wealthy railroad
contractor, was thrown out of an aut-
emobile IN which ne was riding, and
was run over and fatally hurt before
the vehicle could be stopped.
A floor should never be swept in
room where there is a contagious pa
tient. 1t should be washed with
cloth dipped in borax water, SO that
no dust annoys the patient and no as
sortment of germs are flung up in the
air, to drift out of the window into
the hall en- route to fresh victims.
Mrs. j. M. Steis, WIFI of County
Treasurer Steis, of Winamac, attempt
ed suicide Thursday morning by sat-
urating her clothes with coal. oil and
setting them on fire. She is very badly
burned and it is not believed that she
can recover. She had been sick sew
eral months and was very respondent
The remains of the twelve year.old.
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Miller who
died at South Bend last week, were
brought to Plymouth and taken
to the Blissville church in Polk town.
ship where funeraI services were held
at two O'Clock Thursday and the
remains inferred in the Blissville GEM
etery.
Miss Alice Lidecker, of Bremen,
and Charles Boron, of Mishawaka,
were married last Sunday afternoon
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Boron,
at Wyatt. The ceremony was per-
formed on the veranda' the bride and
groom taking their position on rug
of roses. Rev. B. F. Battenfeld, pas
torof the Wyatt Christian church,
officiated.
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Rail-
road officials, after an investigation
of the wreck at Glenwood IN which
seventeen persons lost their Ives, say
the blame rests on Engineer Hoxey of
the freight train, into the rear of
which the excursion train crashed.
1t is charged that he violated gen.
eral order in backing down track In
the wrong direction without special
dispatch.
A stock food company of Chicago re-
Gently had on exhibition at Warsaw,
according to the Northern Indianian,
COW which measured from tip of tail
to nose, II feet; across the hips;
AZ inches; around the throat, 4 feet 4
inches, and weighing 3.44o pounds.
The daily rations fed consisted Of 81
pounds OF grain, 80 pounds of hay, 80
gallons of water and one.sixth pound
of stock food.
The list of railroad wrecks. with
loss of life, Is long this year and is be-
ing added to almost daily. The one
on the Wabash road, near Springfield,
ILL.,, few days ago was caused by a
misplaced switch; the one on the Erie
in New jersey less than week ago
was the result of neglect to flag the
approaching train; the cause OF the
horror on the Chicago & Eastern Ill