The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-11-03
Brief State Iter1s.

at Shideler because of diphtheria.
s. c. Sells of Anderson, is planning 10
erect a crematory which will cost $500
Edward Hollenbaugh, employed by the
Kokomo Glass Manufacturing Company,
was accidentally struck in the eye by hot
iron, binding the sight.
Mrs. Ernest Burkholder, the wife of a
Wabash farmer, died in dental chair in
DR.. f. E. CRAFTS Office under the influence
Of chloroform. The Coroner said death
was due to heart disease superinduced by
the opiate.
Frank Neal. living near Edinburg, ac-
companied by his father, while driving a
brOncho attached TO cart, was overturned
in a runaway accident and was badly hurt,
being rendered unconscious for some time.
His father escaped with few bruises.
While large crowd was clustered ON
the swinging bridge spanning White River
at Athletic Park in Muncie, cable broke,
permitting the structure to drop twelve
inches. A second cable held, permitting
the crowd to scramble ashore in safety.
Warren Kipp, Is years old, was found
dead in barn at the rear of w. n. Moore's
saloon in Shirley. He had only been sick
few hours. He formerly resided at
Knighstown, but of late has made his home
in Shirley. Kipp was a cripple, having
met with misfortune years ago while coup
ling cars.
DR.. L. l.. Prall, physician near Evans
vile. has pet squirrel which is natural
barometer. From twenty-four to thirty
six hours preceding rain or any violent
atmospheric disturbance. the squirrel will
60 into commissions, the acuteness of the fit
indicating the intensity of the atmoSpher-
ical disturbance to follow.
George Hammond, 60 years old, was
found andering Shout the streets in
Marion. He was unable to remember his
name, but said his home was in Wabash;
that members of his family brought him to
Marion two days before On an interurban
car and then deserted him. John Golding,
humane officer, took the aged man to Wa
bash and notified his family that it would
be necessary for the relatives to care for
| him.
Ralph Matthews, IL years old. son of
State Senator William n. Matthews of
Bedford, is dead of injuries received in a
football game. This is supposed to have
been the real cause, although it is asserted
that rheumatism and typhoid fever, the re-
| suit of shower bath while in a heated
condition, contributed. The immediate
cause ,wever, was ruptured blood YES
sci, (. ,eived while at play. Matthews was
a member of the Bedford High School and
a promising young man.
The Big -Four Railway Company has
made good its subscription of $4,000 in aid
of the Purdue Memorial Gymnasium, the
treasurer of that company haviNS for
warded check for that amount to PreSi-
dent Stone of the institution. The gym
nasium is intended to commemorate the
memory of the dead in the Purdue wreck,
at indianapolis in October, 1908. The total
subscription to date reaches $50, 900, and the
college authorities have agreed TO duplicate
the amount when it aggregates $4,000,
making the total. 100000. Work on the
new building will begin next spring.
Mrs. Murray Fitzsimmons Of Windfall
was perhaps fatally injured by being
thrown from an automobile. Jack Ryan,
general superintendent of the Lafayette
Gas Company's pumping stations in that
vicinity, came to take Mrs. Fitzsimmons TO
the station to visit her husband, an en-
ploye of the gas company. Ia attempting
to keep from running over dog Ryan sent
the machine into the curbing and Mrs.
Fizsimmons was thrown to the pavement.
The automobile passed over her abdo-
men. Ryan and his daughter, who
were in the automobile, escaped serious in
jury.
Word has been received in Anderson that
Charles /. Barker, one of the pioneer pub
fishers of the Anderson Democrat, and al
so state printer of Indiana in 1856, died re-
Gently at Burlington, Ia. He was return
ing from his wife's grave, when he fell a
victim of heart failure and expired before
he could be carried from the street.
He was born in 1926, at Westmore-
land, n. H., and in 1852 was employed by
the Cincinnati Gazette, removing two
years later to Indianapolis, and thence to
Anderson in 1858. A year later he went to
Iowa to deal in live stock. He finally re-
sumed newspaper business, and bis last
| work as writer was for the Burlington
Hawkeye. He is survived by one son and
two daughters.
Incased in solid rock ten feet below the
surface Of the earth, a mystery of animal
organism, living creature resembling q
lizard was found in the Deffenbaugh stone
quarry, south of Kokomo. Its home was
recess the exact size and shape of the ami
mails body in thick stratum of limestone.
The cup in the stone was without any
trace of an opening in any direction, to all
appearances being Theoretically sealed
against light, air, warmth and moisture,
and located away from every known ele-
ment of animal subsistence. How the lit
tie creature got there no man has been
found who would even hazard a guess.
The appearance of the stone would indi-
cate that it had been there ever since the
lime was deposited that formed the stratum.
How it was nourished through its long i'm
prisonment is apparently an unsolvabIe
mystery.
Joseph o. Long, one of the first settlers
of Whitley County, died at Churubusco, at
the age Of 70 years, under unusual circum-
stances, showing to the last the mettle of 8
brave man. Being affected with weak
heart he kept bottle of aconite, reduced
| by solution in strength, but by mistake
took dose of the undiluted poison, in
bottle of the same size, on the same shelf
With the premonition that s was the last
of earth for him, being alone in the house,
he went to the telephone and called his
daughter, saying: II am going to die, but
| send DOCTOR" The doctor came, but so