The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-23
Brief State Items.

VI. VI. UOWen, a wealthy farmer near
Hazleton, while gathering pecans. fell from
a tree, breaking his neck and receiving in
juries which will prove fatal.
While the mother was %scrubbing, the lit
tie child of Hillard Laffoon of Linton, sat
down in a a filled with boiling water,
and was fatally scalded, dying in a few
hours.
d. c. Anderson, successful candidate for
mayor at Huntington, filed suit for $4,000
each against c. w. Whitlock and James b.
Dumbauld. Defamation of character is
charged.
During a family reunion at the home Of
Frank Myers, a well-known farmer near
Newcastle, a horse kicked Shelby, the Z
year-old son of Mr.. Myers, in the breast,
causing death.
The 2-year-old daughter of Mrs. Kate
Malford of MoOres ELL, is dead from the
effects of splitting a kettle of boiling pump
kin on herself. The accident occurred
while the mother was absent.
j. A. Fisher andHarry Smith, two young
men of Pendleton, plead guilty to a charge
of horse stealing in the Circuit Court at
Winchester, and were sentenced TO from
one to fourteen years in prison.
John Bopp, So, blacksmith for the West
ern Flint Glass Company at Eaton, was in
stantly killed at the factory by the plug
blowing out of a high-pressure steam line
and striking him OF the head, crushing his
skull.
William VanDyke, foreman of a gang of
men unloading coal at Howell, was as
saulted by William Legion, colored, and
is in a serious condition. He was stabbed
three times by Legion, who effected his
escape.
Harry C. Miller and Fred Walters, who
assaulted Ira Reed of Kendallville, drug
ging and robbing him of $50 at Goshen,
were sentenced to the Jacksonville re-
formatory for from two to fourteen years,
and fined $1,000 each.
The factory of the Fort Wayne Pressed
Brick and Tile Company was totally de-.
stroyed by fire. The loss appoximates
$4,000, which may be reduced somewhat
if any of the machinery is still fit for use.
There is $4,000 insurance on the plant.
James W. Roberts, accused of embezzling
SIT from l.. G. Cowles of Charlottesville,
while employed as an agent for the Meri-
dian Life Insurance Company of Indiana
polls. was found not guilty by a jury at
Frankfort. He has been in Jail since July24.
Thomas Croke, a Big Four freight con-
ductor. and Brakeman Jones were probably
fatally injured at Milroy by five bents of
trestle giving way and letting down a car
and cabOOSe in which the men were riding.
The men were taken to their homes in An
derson.
The town of Pawpaw, Richland town.
ship, Miami county, is no more, as by an
order of the County Commissioner the
plat has been declared vacant. At one
time there were 200 people at Pawpaw. A
railroad being built two miles away killed
the town.
During a quarrel in a store at Troy City,
twelve miles northeast of Marion, Thad
Thomas. aged 80, who attacked his brother
in-law. Thomas Faurs, 26, with a chair,
was shot and killed by the latter. Two
bullets struck Thomas over the heart and
he died instantly. Faurs has been arrested
Chas. Daley, employed by the new In
diana Harbor Railway Company, was
struck by a Monon train at Cedar Lake
and cut to pieces. 1t is alleged that he was
intoxicated apd attempted to cross the
but stumbled and fell in front of the en-
CINE.
Freight train 6S on the Michigan division
of the Big Four railroad, was wrecked
by the collapse of a bridge over a small
stream at Benefits crossing, south of
Rushville. A coal car and a caboose went
down with the bridge. Conductor Thomas
Croak of Wabash, and Brakeman r. G..
Bruso, also of Wabash, sustained slight
injuries.
Charles Dick, a saloonkeeper of Jasper,
in order to get the farmers of Dubois
county interested in his wares, is offering
a gallon of his best whiskey to the farmer
bringing him the twelve biggest ears of
corn before Jan. l next. A half-gallon will
be given as a second prize and a quart as a
third. The whiskey will be awarded on
New Years Day, so that the winners may
start the year with peace and plenty.
Fifteen hundred dollars in bank notes
wrapped up in a bundle of newspapers wa3
found by Clarence Mason, a farmer livin1
five miles southwest of Cambridge City
The money was concealed in the hollow d
a stump. Mason also found a dark lanter1
and a large brass ring, supposed to be- a
piece of a safe. The papers wrapped about
the O were identified as belonging to
the First National Bank at Hagerstown.
Fox Brothers muslin underwear and
glove factory, one of the six already OBJ
tanned by the Oakdale improvement Com
pany for Peru, will begin operations within
the next three weeks. The firm comes
from Eaton, Ohio, where its present quar-
tiers are too small. Many employees will
come from Eaton to work in the Peru fac
tory. The firm will employ 125 persons
Chute & Buffers piana works Will star
December / with 40 workmen. This firm
comes from Laf0ntaine.
In the case of Mrs. Mary Schied, whose
body was found in the family cistern a,
Guilford, and concerning whom there was
apprehension that she had met with foul
play, DR.. George H. Smith of Lawrence.
burg, coroner of Dearborn county, has re.
turned a finding of suicide.
An unusual surgical operation was per
formed at Columbus by DR.. A. J. Banker
on the 5-weeks-old infant of Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Clark of Indianapolis. The chil(
had only three fingers on each land. Al
examination showed that the second ant
third fingers had grown together, and thes'
were cut apart. The child is doing well.
Curry Mayfield and Floyd Skinner wer'
arrested near Linton, accused of forging
check for $50 on the Linton bank. siRninI