The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-16

A 3-year-old son CT Robert Snyder, south
of Indianapolis, was burned to death while
playing with matches.
The jury in the trial of VIM. Warren for
the murder of Hugh Stewart at Terre
HaLte, returned verdict of not guilty.
George w., the property of Sylvester Hill
lgoss OF Rush county, is dead of pneu-
monia. The horse was valued at $1,000.
John Hevron, 80 years old, agent for the
Southern railway at Tennison, Warrick
county, was struck by train and fatally
hurt.
Louis Terrill, owner of the Rose Bud
fruit farm at Lawrenceburg, was kicked
on the head by mule and his recovery is
doubtful.
Joseph Meeks of Bedford, who is said to
have been mentally unbalanced for some
time, committed suicide by hanging him
self in his barn. He was nearly 100 years
old.
Clarence Brown, aged Is, of Shelbyyille,
returning late from Halloween party, was
shot in the breast by unknown parties Sc
creted in cornfield by the roadside. He
will die.
William Newman of Markleville, indicted
for alleged intent to murder George Lewis
and his son, Ozro Lewis, was found guilty
of assault and battery, and he was fined s25
and costs.
Burglars entered Luther Virgins store
at Clarks Hill through the basement and
escaped with $50 cash and small amount
of goods There is no clew to the identity
of the thieves.
Frank Cassiday of Lena, ILL.,, was shot
and killed by Thomas Scroggon in Nor
gantown. Scroggin alleges that Cassiday
was trying TO break into his residence
Scroggin surrendered.
David McKane, while destroying stumps
near Milford, accidentally exploded a stick
of dynamite in his hand. His right hand
was blown entirely off, and he was injured
about the head and shoulders.
in the Erie shops at Huntington, had hi:
right hand badly mangled while feeding {
corn shredder. 1t was necessary to ampu
tate large portion of the hand.
An incendiary burned the barn owned
by James Kelly, near Whitestown. Muci
hay and farming implements were con
sumed, and four horses were cremated
The loss is 81 900, with but $3.50 insurance
The body of Dennis Driscoll, formerly o
Ottawa, ILL.,, and member of the militar.
home at Marion, was found in a thicket b!
hunter. He had beeIjmissing about ;
E.. \, a "A
cred with blood.
While children were playing around ;
bonfire of burning leaves at COnnersville
the dress of Beulah Utter, 6 years old
| caught fire and she was fatally burned
Her mother was also severely injured whit
trying to rescue the child.
| Charles Green, arrested at Terre Haut,
for the theft of $3.50 from his landlady, hat
a newspaper clipping of the escape of ;
convict from Chester, Ill, and confessed tina
he is the man. He had been sentenced TO
burglary at Lawrenceville.
Wesley Lyons, aged 70, of Elkhart, VIII,
was recently convicted of the murder o
Hazel Wolfe and Hanna Emory, both L
years old, was denied new trial. Lyon
was fined 81, 600 and sentenced to Michigan
City prison to an indeterminate term.
The grand jury of Marshall county re
turned sixty indictments against cigarette
smokers. Plymouth, the seat of Marshal
county, is the home Of Senator Parks, au
thor of the anti-cigarette law, and he will
prosecute the offenders indicted by tn
grand jury.
The Jefferson theater at Goshen, a new
playhouse costing $4,000, was opened b,
Richard Mansfield in "The Merchant o
| Venice before a large audience. Gov
j. Frank Hanly was present with ex-At
tomey General Miller and made a dedi
eatory address.
Within sight of thirty men standing II
front of polling place in the Fourteentl
ward, at Indianapolis, John Smith wa
shot and killed by Herman Huff in from
of the latters home in Arbor avenue. Th
trouble grew out of personal difference
and it is said had nothing to do with poll
tics. Huff escaped.
II. B. Tormohlen, near Holland, Will
sinking well, at the depth of thirty feet
struck ten-foot ledge of sandstone, un
derneath which was a four-foot vein of ex
cellent coal, then a layer of slate two feet
nine inches thick. followed by limeston
ledge thirty-one feet in thickness. Their
is much rejoicing over the find.
A reward of 81 900 for the arrest of Osca
A. Baker of Indianapolis, has been offere,
by Edward G. Sourbierm, sheriff of Marion
county. Baker is wanted on a charge O