The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-02-23
Brief State Items.


postmaster at Wolf Lake, Noble County.
Mrs. Jerome Becker, aged 90, fell down
stairs at her home in Button, and was
killed.
Isaac Ressler of BlufftOn, aged IS.
blacksmith, ended his life by taking lau-
danum
Miss Minnie Johns of Anderson, has in
herited property valued at $4,000 in the
vicinity of Lincoln, Neb.
John j. Sise of Butler, rs years of age,
has been declared of unsound mind and
will be placed in an asylum.
Fire in the Davis Lumber Company's
sheds at Alexandria, destroyed $500
stock. mcendiarism is suspected.
Riley Manus was sentenced to term in
Michigan City prison from Portland for
drugging and robbing Abraham c. Croft.
The l.. E. & w. depot and its contents
at Chase were burned to the ground recent
ly. The origin of the fire is not
known.
The large farm residence of Washington
Prugh, two miles southeast of Larwill, was
totally destroyed by fire, but Learly all the
contents were saved.
AS big Monon engine, drawing heavy
freight train, was pulling into Hammond
recently, the arch fiues to the fire box blew
up, fatally injuring two men.
George Harris, Glover Leaf brakeman
| of Frankfort, was killed at Greentown
while attempting to climb from the engine
tender to the top of a box car.
ZenO Vandever and Louis Phillips, stu
dents in the Indiana Normal School at
Terra Haute, were acquitted of larceny,
with which they were charged.
While saloon keeper at South Bend was
attempting to thaw a frozen bottle of soda
water the bottle exploded, destroying one
of his eyes and cutting off finger.
At the dedication of the new Methodist
church at New Castle, the sum of $4,000
was raised, making it possible to dedicate
| the $4,000 building free from debt.
Oscar Candy, the Churubusco banker,
has announced that he will erect large
sanitarium at Blue Lake. where patients
may be benefited by using the water from
! the mineral springs there.
William Kelley of Marshall County has
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eminent the sum of seventy-five cents
Ioverpaid by him at the close of the war
when he settled his accounts with the quar-
termaster.
Harry Banks of Evansville was told by
four physicians that he did not have small
ipOX. He still insisted he had the disease
| and went TO the pesthouSe, where he will
have to remain several days with the other
patients.
| Riley Smith, known as the talleSt man IN
Indiana, was found dead in bed at Bloom
tington. Heart failure caused death.
Smith was seven feet two inches tall, he
was % years old and was<for many years
an inmate of the county infirmary.
| A Baltimore q Ohio freight train at Will
low Greek crashed into wrecking train on
the Michigan Central Road. which was en-
route to Chicago to clear up wreck.
Twenty-Five men who were in the cabOOse
lwere injured. several of them seriously.
The South Bend Home Telephone Com
pauy. owned by Fort Wayne capital,
which began business two years ago in OPP
position to the Central Union, now has
! 200 telephones in operation, and has just
decided to put in an automatic system, the
I first in use in Indiana.
| Albion people now believe that the mys-
Iterious stranger, sailing under the name of
Hoover, who married Mrs. Fades, in that
town a few months ago, and deserted the
woman after securing her money, was none
IOther than the much-married Johann
Hoch, the Chicago bigamist.
A movement has been started by Jasper
packard Post @. A. X. of the Soldiers
Home at Lafayette, to build house for the
carriage that was owned by Oliver P. Nor
Ton, the War Governor of Indiana. The
lcarriage was presented TO the State Sol
iiers' Home by son of Governor Morton
about three years ago. 1t has been stored
laway from the signt of visitors. 1t was
decided a year ago that money for the
building could not be taken from the MAIN
tenance fund and the post expects TO raise
$500 by subscription. The post has con-
ltributed 500. 1t is intended to use the
building for museum for other relics be-
sides Governor Morton's carriage.
Patrons of the Richmond Water Com
pany have been complaining because of the
peculiar taste and odor of the water, and
the Health Department was called on to
Investigate the cause. DIR. T. Henry Davis,
| city health officer. in statement to the
citizens, asserts that the coEdiuon is caused
by plant that has been growing in the
RESERVOIR of the company. Though the
huge basin is covered with cement the pc
Icuhar plant fiourishes, floating on the sur
face of the water. The company has re-
moved the growth several times, but il has
Ireappeared in larger quantities than ever.
The Agricultural department at Washing
ton was appealed TO and Government ex-
Ipert from the department was sent. Dr.
Davis says the expert has suggested means
by which the growth may be exterminated.
The health officer declares hat the plant,
while imparting disagreeable taste to the
water, is not injurious to health.
Earl Bennett, the son of Former Post
master II. S. Bennett of Evansville. who
was arrested on the charge Of having GRIM
finally assaulted the 13-year-old daughter
of John Mullen, has been adjudged insane,
and will be admitted to the insane asylum.
His father is i'll and is not expected to live.
A dog belonging to z. M. Cranes of
Bryant, was seized of the rabies and
three times attacked Miss Bonnie Emerson,
a telephone operator. Another dog was
bitten and over two hundred chickens
killed by the canine before he was run