The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-11-24
Brief State Items.

Complete rural free delivery of mail will
De effective in Adams county December 10.
A dust explosion i'm the Fontanet mine
at Clinton seriously injured two shot firers.
The diphtheria epidemic at Shideler is
dnder control and the schools have re-
opened.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Morgan of Muncie,
nave celebrated their golden wedding an
niversary.
Mrs. l.. NJ Abbott of Liberty Mills,
swallowed sulphate of zinc. installing the
potion for salts, and narrowly escaped
death.
The local butchers of Newcastle have
formed a combination and hereafter the
customer refusing to pay his bills will be
blacklisted.
Councilman Henry Fate, missing for
several weeks, has returned to his home in
Pendleton, and he is now seriously i'll of
typhoid fever.
Claude Lee, the 11-year-olsi son OF James
Lee, jumped off moving freight train at
Bedford, falling under the wheels and los
ing his left leg at the knee.
Mr.. and Mrs William Middleton of
RuSsiaville, have celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary. Mr.. Middleton is
ex-treasurer of Howard County.
The Rev. NJ. s. Kenworthy, instructor in
the Biblical department of Earlham Col
lege, Richmond, has been called TO the pas
torate of the Friends Church in Portland
Andrew j. Fleener, aged 81, farmer,
while attempting to Kill hawk was acct
1entally shot and killed near Nashville.
The trigger of his gun was caught on the
door,
Harry Zimmerman, II, is at the point of
death at his home at Cambridge City, from
a fall received while playing. His foot
slipped on banana peel. The fall injured
his spine
Typhoid fever has appeared at Evans
vile among the children in the White Or
phan Asylum and SIX children in one ward
are ill. The cause is attributed to the
water supply.
Jacob Stotsel, an Austrian of Clinton,
started to walk home across the railroad
track. While attempting to cross high
bridge he fell to the creek bottom below
and was killed.
Rev. l.. c. Howe, pastor of the East Main
Street Christian Church of Elwood for sew
eral years, will shortly resign his charge to
accept a call elsewhere. He has several
under consideration.
The local supply of natural gas at Alex
andria is better than for several years,
there being fewer customers, while num-
Der of pumping stations surrounding the
city have shut down and removed else
where.
A lunacy commission at Warsaw has de-
clared that Daniel p. Tuigg, the newspaper
solicitor, who shot several persons while
aboard Pennsylvania train few weeks
ago, is not insane. Tuigg will be tried in
December.
Hugh Pogue died at Madison from the
effect of morphine. taken with suicidal in
tent He was fine young man of good
habits, but left a note saying, among other
things, that he was too bashful to make
life success.
Mrs. Stuart Sbirkie, who for several
years has successfully operated coal mines
near Clinton, has announced that she will
retire from active life. She will dispose of
her properties by sale and distribute the
proceeds among her children.
A. A. Reynolds, who for several years
has been in charge of the real estate de-
partment of the Winona Assembly Associ-
alton, was stricken with paralysis while in
the County Recorders Office at Warsaw
and sank unconscious to the floor.
At the Hotel Doxey in Anderson, when
two employees were moving $500 worth of
cut glass to the basement to be washed,
they dropped it down the elevator shaft.
and it broke to pieces. The men were so
excited that they slid down the rope of the
elevator to the basement and picked up the
pieces.
Samuel Bales, who was living at the
home of Mrs. Elmira Drake, near Harveys-
burg, is reported to be missing, under pc
culiar circumstances, and his friends are
conducting an investigation. Mrs. Drake
was recently acquitted of poisoning her
husband, after trial noted in the criminal
history of Fountain County.
The contents of shotgun intended for
burglars almost ended the life of Barney
Thurber, well-known La Porte County
farmer. Awakened during the night by a
noise, he grabbed the gun and put in a
heavy load of shot. The trigger struck a
chair and the gun was accidentally dis
charged, part of the shot striking Thurber
i'm the head.
Five elephants, belonging to Wallace's
Circus, while being placed in winter quar-
tiers at Peru got away. Two used for NOV
ing wagons pursued a negro about the
quarters and their trumpeting gained the
attention of three other elephants in the
barn. The five elephants then tore down
the road creating panic. People ran In
fear, and at an auction at the home of
Jonathan Jones, when the elephants APP
peared, business was Immediately sus-
pended Keepers pursued the animals
and finally arrested them. The huge fell
lows had gone through wire fences as if
they were made of thread, and rail fences
went down like SO much paper.
Ira NJ King of Smithfield Township, De-
Kalb County, will probably always re-
member Tuesday, November 8, 1904. 1t
was the twenty-first anniversary of his
birth; he cast his first vote alc was united
in marriage to Miss Mary Hess on that day
Abraham McGintis was shot and fatally
wounded while hunting with James Mey-
ers. south of Clinton. As Meyers was
climbing over fence his shotgun was ac-
cidentally discharged, and the contents