The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-27
waldron wants canning factory.

| N'aidS Oiccuitt > IeSluence, near help
was destroyed by fire.
New public school building at No. 3,
Noble township, has been dedicated.
The barn of Mrs. Mary Kent of Rising
Sun was destroyed by fire. Loss $1,000
Mrs. 1. A. Clemens of Michigan City
fell downstairs and was seriously injured.
George Humphrey of Patoka has
deed signed by President James Madi-
son.
Walter S. Brown Of Cincinnati is the
new teacher of music at Moores Hill Col
lege
Nathaniel Swain, "a, and Mrs Ange-
line L. Smith of Zionsville have Just been
married
The new $4,000 school building Mt
Brownsvalley opened with an attendance
of 125 pupils.
The two-story farm residence of Jo-
seph Johnson, south Of Carthage, was
| destroyed by fire.
James Whitinger, 81, the Oldest resi-
| dent of Rush county, is dead. He lived
in Orange township.
Morris Lothammer, a wealthy farmer,
| residing near st. Joe, Is mysteriously
missing from his home.
was chosen president of the Photograph
ers' Association Of America.
John Reynolds OF Anderson now has
ms cobbler shop on wheels and goes from
place TO place mending shoes.
Eddie Geiser was shot and killed at
his home in Gibson county by brother
who was playing with a gun.
The body of Elmer Shaw, 80 years old,
who disappeared recently, was found in
the wabash river at Vincennes.
Isaac Shoptaugh was arrested at
Bonneville and returned to the Michigan
| City prison. He was out on parole.
Fire at Frankton caused loss of S4O,-
GOO, destroying L. A. Wells drug store,
the opera house and other properties.
e. A. Chambers of Chicago has pur-
chased sixty acres near Shelbyville and
Will raise chickens on an extensive scale.
Contracts have been placed for the
machinery that Is to be installed In the
| new Morris hardware mandatory at
| Marion.
Two persons, each 9S years old, are
derson Of Ekin and Mrs. Murphy OF
| Clarksburg.
Prof. Michael, the principal. found a
poker game in progress in the Logans-
port high school building, the players
being students who were supposed to be
in their class rooms. Three explosions
promptly followed.
The two young daughters of Schuyler
Colfax, former Mayor of South Bend,
who died from food or milk poisoning,
| were buried IN the same grave. Their
ages were and years Both died "a
hours of each other.
Daniel Tuigg of Chicago became sud
| denly deranged on a Pennsylvania pas
senger train near Warsaw, and, drawing
| revolver, began shooting among the
passengers. Carl Prekham, aged 10, and
George Gault, aged %, both of Monroe
vile, were hit by the flying bullets. Prek-
| ham was shot near the heart and will
die. The man was overpowered by the
trainmen and passengers and brought
to Fort Wayne, where he was placed In
Jail.
Lying in his home suffering with sew
eral knife wounds, Joseph Allen, guard
at the Michigan City prison, is thought
to be in dangerous condition. Allen
attempted to suppress an outbreak in
which three desperate criminals made an
effort to escape The officer gave chase
and overlook the fleeing prisoners, all of
whom fought desperately with him. A
knife in the hands of life prisoner in
ficted the injuries. Assistance from fell
low guards saved the life of Allen. The
convicts who figured in the ARRAY are
desperate and hardened criminals.
The aged mother of W. ]. Victor, who
resides at Lewis Greek, tried to commit
suicide by drowning herself in a large
galvanized iron tank filled with water
Miss Edna Maze, a school teacher, who
boards at the Victor home, dragged the
aged woman from the tank end went for
assistance. When she returned with
several neighbors Mrs. Victor had again
gone to the tank and was ready to make
again a second attempt at self-destruc-
ton. She is so years old, and it is be-
Viewed that her mind is giving way.
Oliver B. Radcliffe, arrested for the
murder of his father, Silas r ldcliff. has
confessed, according to the poll e. There
was trouble between them regarding a
corn crop, and Radcliff says his father
called him a liar and raised llandspike
with which to strike him. Believing
his life was endangered, the young man
struck his father with q club crushing
his skull and causing death within half
an hour, the old man not regaining con-
sciousness before death. The slayer is
"a years old, and he has always borne
a peaceful reputation. The senior Rad
cliff was similarly disposed tc his neigh
bors. but was unpleasant in his family
relations, and on several occasions, it Is
alleged, Oliver was compelled to interfere
to protect other members Of the family
from injury. The son is a man of fam
lily, and the sympathy Of the community
is said to be with him. The family lives
at Hardingsburg.
The Jacksonville branch Of the Amer
lean Car and Foundry Company will be
closed indefinitely Nov. 1. About 800
men are affected.
William Chapman, who killed John
Stelzer in drunken brawl at lumber
camp near Portland, is said to be dying
from hemorrhage Of the lungs, the re-
suit of the beating administered by Stel-
ger.
Charles Rhodes came to Elkhxrt to
visit his sick wife and found she had
been buried for several days. He was
ON business trip through the rural dis
tricts when his wife passed away. His
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