The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-27
All Over the State.

All Over the State.
When about to give blessing at dinner
In Elkhart a stroke Of apoplexy rendered
A. ]. Oils speechless. His condition is
serious.
Alvin Johnson, aged IA, the son Of
Nels Johnson, while returning home from
work was struck by a Pere Marquette
engine in La Porte and instantly killed.
Joseph Ash, %, of Vincennes, fell
dead just after returning from the
worlds fair. He was unwrapping a pres
ent to give to his sweetheart, Miss Cora
Nominee, when the end came. She is
Frustrated.
William Weaver of Shutdown sudden
Iy dropped to the sidewalk while walk
that he was dead, but DIR. Wood revived
him and ne was able to return home. He
suffered from heart disease.
Leslie Payne, 16 years old, living at
Valparaiso, tried to commit suicide be-
cause he was sent to school. He mixed
strychnine with chocolate candy, which
he ate. He will recover on account of
taking an overdose Of the poison.
Elmer Crum, the wealthy Indiana
farmer who abducted his 2-year-old son
after the child had been given into the
care of its mother as the result of divorce
proceedings, has been sentenced to four
teen years Imprisonment at Kokomo.
With the cry that she was being hunt
ed to be killed Mrs. Lemuel Delong of
South Chicago caused terror in the home
of Rev. Hans Zumstein in La Porte She
and a 10-year-old son had arrived in the
evening. After she retired she became a
raving maniac.
Breeding over the death Of her chum,
Crystal Krauss, the Hartford City girl
who, it is claimed, was poisoned by her
step-mother, caused Hazel Stewart, So
ciety leader Of Marion, and daughter of
George Stewart, capitalist, to become
mentally deranged.
The damage suit brought by Miss
Laura Bellmear of Terre Haute against
Walter s. Boyle, Jr., son Of a Chicago
coal operator, for personal injuries caus-
ed by his throwing a giant firecracker
into street car on the Fourth of July,
was settled out of court for $3.50.
Next luteluk VI Tue 1uQldlla odVl1Sl
Association will be held in New AL
bany next October. At Shelbyyille the
other day a resolution was passed
against Sunday baseball The Legisla-
ture will be asked to make it a viola
ton Of the law to play ball within two
miles of a church.
Driven insane by drink, Frank Schultz,
a La Porte restaurant keeper, wrenched
q piece of iron wire from q radiator in
his room at the Interlaken sanitarium,
where he was receiving treatment, and,
fashioning moose, fastened one end of
the wire to the bedpost and strangled
himself to death.
Capt. e. P. Thayer Of Greenfield has
been awarded the contract for furnish
ing meat to the Soldiers Orphans Home
ut Knightstown for the next six months.
A cooperative company has bought
the glass factory at North Vernon and
/. will be started within a month. en-
ploying 125 hands.
1t is said that John Askwell, Colum-
bus young man, was almos,. frightened
to death by q supposed ghost, which his
companions had placed in the street near
MS nome.
John Brown and Charles Yettaw.
brothersin-law, of Anderson, came to
blows. Brown was knocked unconscious
and had to be taken to the hospital. Yet
taw is minus finger as result of the
fight. Both were arrested.
While hauling heavy machinery over a
bridge near Markleville. the bridge col
lapeed and Arthur Nickerson of Fort
Wayne was so badly injured that he died
in the Anderson hospital
G. T. Barr, agent of the American
Express Company at Perth, was arrest
ed. charged with embezzling S7OO of the
company's funds. He was placed in jail
He admitted that he had lost considera-
bic money lately by gambling.
william Fargher, %, Of Laporte. Is
dead. he owned the most complete
Manx library In the United States and
was visited by Manxmen from all over
the country. For years he was proprie-
~ of summer resort near Laporta