The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01
Brief State Items.

Brief State Items.
The new high school building at Clinton,
costing $4,000, is ready for occupancy.
The new Federal building at Richmond
will be ready for occupancy next March.
Emil Baumgardner, young brick mason
at Bluffton, has become violently insane.
The Home Club, literary organization
of women at Milton, has celebrated its sixth
anniversary
Michael Henson, employed by Jacob
Stein at Clinton, had his hand torn to pieces
in a corn shredder
| Joseph Holten of Columbus, was kicked
in the face by mule, breaking his nose
and MASKING his face.
Racy Boren, aged 10, died at Butler from
the effects of having tooth pulled. Blood
poisoning had resulted.
| Smallpox in a mild form is prevalent in
many parts of DeKalb County. There are
several cases at Waterloo.
Emil Williams of Elkhart. had his left
arm shattered by the accidental discharge
of shotgun while hunting.
Mrs. Frank Lamp died very suddenly
from heart trouble at her home in Rome
City. She was 81 years of age.
Charles Riley, SO years old, veteran of
the civil war, rendered unconscious by an
accidental fall, is dead at Elwood.
Mrs. Melissa King, II years old, of Jones'
vile, accidentally burned a few days ago
by the explosion of a lamp, is dead.
Elkhart merchants want fifteen-minute
schedule for the street car system instead
of the half-hourly trips as at present.
There is movement to re-establish the
farmers institute at Elwood. A similar
institution flourished forty years ago.
Daniel Benedict was damaged $1,000 by
the burning of his home and contents in
Clinton. Insurance ope-half the loss.
A team of valuable horses, owned by
Claude Bowers, farmer near Elkhart. ate
the bark of locust tree and died as result.
NJ. II. Ingram of Winamac, has a red
| cedar shingle made in England in 1742 and
imported for George Washington's barn at
Mount Vernon.
w. A. Clenmer of Muncie, brakeman on
the Lake Erie & Western Railway, had his
left leg fractured by the breaking of rod
key on an engine.
The teachers institute of Alexandria,
declared for higher salaries and appointed
| a committee to lay the matter before the
General Assembly.
The 2-year-Old daughter of Edward
Morrison of Bedford, was accidentally
burned to death by its clothes catching fire
from an open CRATE.
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against DIR. Edward c. Crow of Elkhart,
who is said to have been practising medi-
cine without license.
Judge Francis T. Hord, who yacates the
judicial bench. has formed a law partner
ship with James +. Cox of Columbus, and
will resume the practice of law.
Albert Hopkins, 10 years old, who shot
several times at an Evansville & Terre
Haute Railway Brakeman, has been SEN
fenced to the Indiana Boys School.
John Hartley, aged %, a prominent
young farmer of Orleans, had his arm cut
off by corn shredder. He was to have
been married on Thanksgiving dag.
While trying rifle at Brookville, Philip
Meyers missed his target and the wild ball
entered an ice cream stand and hit Benja-
min Winans in the neck. inflicting a severe
wound.
While coasting down Shauls' hill, eight
miles south of Clinton, Lawrence Fields
fell from his bicycle over steep embank-
skull. He will die.
Jacob Mast, a wealthy farmer of Elkhart
County, dropped dead while building fire
in the kitchen stove. A moment before he
responded to salutation by his daughter,
saying he never felt better.
Cecil. the little son of Mr.. and Mrs
Robert Hudson of Rushville, while playing
"mumble peg" with number of other
boys, fell ON the knife with which they
were playing, running it into his eye.
An effort is being put forth by Samuel
Beam, caretaker of Westside cemetery at
Clinton, to have the bodies of several SOL
diers now buried in the potter's field in that
cemetery removed and buried in place
for that purpose.
George Barkess, a Greek. arrested for
stealing cigars from his employers, Baker
q Seeley of Elwo0d, has confessed his
guilt,,an he has been remanded for grand
jury action. His employers say they will
not prosecute him.
While Charles Brown of Connersville,
was working corn shredder, his gold
watch dropped from his pocket and into
the shredder, passing from sight. A
thorough search was made, but the watch
could not be found.
Out of six children born to Mr.. and Mrs.
William Favours of Muncie, in the last
eleven years, only one now survives, the
fifth dying recently. Coroner Poland was
called upon to investigate the last death,
but pronounced death due to natural
causes.
Mr. and Mrs. George w. Harley, pioneer
residents of Whitley County, have just
celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their
marriage, which took place in Bedford
County, Pennsylvania, in 1874. They are
so and 50 years old, respectively, and enjoy
good health.
Racy Boren, 20 years of age, died few
days ago in Wilmington Township, De-
Kalb County, from lockjaw which is said
to have resulted from the extraction Of
teeth.
Shiny particles attracted the attention Of
Frank Green, who was ditching on the
Hemenway farm, near Rockville, and an
expert pronounced the same to be gold.
Further investigation will be made.
Charles o. Drake of Goshen, engineer on
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