The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-03-10

day.
Nearly 25, 900 workmen will be
made idle by strikes OF lockouts this
week unless concessions are granted
by parties to a number of labor con-
~troversies.
Perry o. Jones, b. C. Southworth,
Samuel GretzInger and George d.
Marks attended the funeral of Alex
ander Newhouse, at Gilead church
Sunday.
Hon. Charles ii. Reeve, who has
been in declining health for several
years, seems to haye gone through the
winter as we'll as usual. His mind is
as bright as ever.
Mrs. j. V. Ashley and daughter
were called to Bourbon Monday by a
telegram announcing the critical ill
ness OF one of Matt Swoverland s chill
dren, a grand-child of Mrs. Ashley.
Speaking of "a fool for luck, a fell
low at Logansport bought a quart OF
oysters, kicked" about the price and
then took them home. In his dish of
soup he found a pearl valued at $50.
The Department of Agriculture has
decided to make extensive oil sur
veys during the spring and summer OF
this year in Scott. Warren, Spencer,
Madison and probably in Marshall and
Starke counties .-Indianapolis Star.
The uncle Of a Michigan teamster
died and left him a million dollars.
Whea he heard the news be became
insane. In spite of this, there is not
a man in the country who wouldn't be
willing to take the risk.
Rome G. Stephenson of Rochester,
has been nominated for state senator
in the district composed OfWabash and
Fulton counties. The district has a
republican majority of 1000, the lefofe
his nomination is equivalent to an
election.
An employe of a wholesale establish.
ment in Chicago died last week. An
inventory of his estate revealed the
fact that his property possessions
amounted to $3.50, 900, That employe
surely never had occasion to 60 out on
a strike.
Ezra X. Barnhill has been on the
sick list for several months and is
still confined to his home most of the
time and now Mrs. Barnhill is serious
ly i'll. They are a worthy couple who
have the sympathy of hundreds of
friends.
Smallpox has been playing havoc iu
Elkhart county within the last few
weeks, having appeared at Wakarusa,
Nappanee. Millersburg, Elkhart, Cos
hen and Middlebury. An outbreak OF
a virulent kind is reported in the lat.
ter town.
Mrs. John w. Wiltfong has return.
ed from Syracuse, New York, where
she was visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Leslie Bell. She suffered from ner-
vous prostraJion most OF the time
during her visit and thought it was
best to return home.
A marked revival of business is re-
ported from the East. The South is
fourishing as it never hourished be-
fore. In the West trade conditions
are most excellent. All this makes
nightly pleasing reading for the
masses.
A. D.. Jacoby of Elkhart, spent Sun
day with his parents just east of this
city. His father John Jacoby, one of
the oldest settlers of the county, is in
declining health, but his many friends
hope that warmer weather Will enable
him to get out again.
In Waterbury, where the watches
came from. a woman drank a pint of
cider brandy, a pint of rye whisky, an
ounce of carbolic acid, four ounces of
chloroform and a drachm of sulphate
of morphine. The doctors think she
must have been trying to commit sui
eide.
The Elkhart Review thinks that
the vote of Elkhart county in the
state convention will be divided al
most equally for Hon. Warren G.
Sayre, Of Wabash, Judge Penield OF
Auburn, Hon. w. L. Taylor of Ind
annapolis and Hon. Frank Hanly of
Lafayette.
An itinerant Methodist preacher in
Missouri has inherited $500, 900 from
a relative in Jamaica. When he was
told of his good luck, s'Amen..' said
the preacher, and went on with his
work. But the Missouri papers are
discovering that he is "a talented
Iinguist, artist and writer" OF
course. But before be got the money