The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-06-15
Brief State Items.

was crushed under 1alllnS tr6e ana lVed
but few hours.
Goldie Ayres, s years old, daughter of
Mayor Ayres of Portland, was terribly
burned by her clothing catching fire.
John Bowles, aged 20, was struck and
fatally injured by local freight train at
Franklin. He died two hours later.
The frame house and barn of Edward
Andrews, several miles northwest of An
derson, were destroyed 10y fire. Loss, 1900.
Colonel Dodson, 70 years old, a soldier of
the civil war, was struck by Chicago &
Eastern Illinois freight train at Hillsdale,
and instantly killed.
The safe in the Office of the Southern
Indiana Railway Company az Coalmont,
was broken into and robbed of $50. The
burglars escaped arrest.
Charles Brentlinger of South Bend, while
sneezing, ruptured small intestine. per-
hitting the cont nts of his stomach to leak
out. His condition is serious.
L. r. Pettigoe, brakeman On the Chicago
& Eas;een Illinois railway, was crushed to
death between two cars in Clinton. BE
was 20 years old and unmarried.
Daniel Hassler, Is years old, of Evans
vile, while bathing in the West Heights
Park lake, was seized of cramps and
drowned. The body was recovered.
Fire Chief Leonard of Terre Haute, while
answering fire alarm, narrowly escaped
death by collision with street car. The
horse was so badly injured that twas shot.
The body of Miss Ollie Yarbrough, 10
years old, was found floating in pond
near Shoals. by her father. She left home
short time before her body was found.
Cromwell is promoting another factory
and it promises to be go. The new en-
terprise is combination step ladder fac
tory, the inventor of the article being DR..
Plaster.
A buggy containing Mrs. S. III. s. Cook
and daughter was struck by street car at
Evansville. The occupants were thrown
out and Mrs. Cook sustained serious in
ternal injuries.
A tidal wave four feet high, the heaviest
on record, swept in from Lake Michigan at
Michigan City, washing the top off of the
docks for One-fourth of mile from the
harbor entrance.
The Electric Light Company of ROches-
ter has filed damage suit in the Circuit
Court against the town of Rochester, al
leging Indebtedness on the part of the town
to the amount of $3.50.
Frank Grippe of Goshen, who murdered
Michael Self in 1882, and who was paroled
in 1894, has been remanded back to prison
for intoxication, and he fears that he will
never again retain his liberty.
Roy Atgood, "a years old, Monon
brakeman, was instantly killed at Linden
ty Monon freight train, southbound. He
hved at cambridge and was unmarried.
The cars passed across his body.
Shirley Summerton died from scalds re-
ceived by the explosion Of the steam heater
in the boiler room of the Summerton mills
at Wabash. His father, who was badly
scalded at the same time, is recovering.
While boys were bathing in the Wabash
river near Williamsport, Merrill Swank, Ii
years old, son of DIR. Leroy Swank, was
swept into midstream by the swift current
and drowned. The body was recovered.
John Wiesse, a business man of Whiting,
committed suicide by hanging himself TO a
rafter in his office. He had brOoded over
the recent death of his wife and there were
also financial troubles. The body was
cold when found.
Professor Carte, local weather observer,
reported that during May ga inches of
rain fell in Fort Wayne, nearly one-fourth
the entire normal rainfall of the average
year. The mean temperature, however,
was sixty, or about the average.
The town board of Cambridge City is
considering the feasibility of shutting out
the sales of intoxicants at drug stores by
imposing an annual license of sl0O. Mean
while the druggists contend that no intoxi-
cants are sold, save Oh prescription.
H. Jacobs, who owned five and ten
cent store at Shelbyville, has gone into
bankruptcy. The creditors of the store are
in different parts of the country, there
being none for any great amounts. The
assets of Mr.. Jacobs will amount to 5000
and the liabilities $3.50.
In the Kosciusko Circuit Court-Mrs. Eli
zabeth Larue of Pierceton, wife of the no.
torious Weddall b. Larue, now serving a
sentence of from one to fourteen years in
the reformatory at Jeffersonyille for at
tempting the life of his wife few months
ago, was granted divorce.
George Pettinger, a Preble county farmer.
east of Richmond, has found large, COM
posite mass of stone and metal on his farm
1t is believed to be meteor, showing evil
dences of having been highly heated. Its
diameter is twenty-five inches, and its
weight several hundred pounds.
The Margaret" substation of the Ev-
ansville & Princeton Company, eight miles
from Evansville, was destroyed by fire.
The loss ranges from $4,000 to $4,000.
The officials believe that the fire was of in
cendiary origin. The loss is covered by
insurance. The burning Of the substation
cripples the service, and only one-half of
the number of regular cars are now run
ming.
The Dering Coal Company will soon be-
gin the construction of one hundred tene-
ments at their mines, south of Clinton.
The houses will be occupied by men work
ing for the company A business block
will also be erected for general merchan-
dising purposes.
The Rock Run mine near Clinton, prob
ably will be Abandoned. The mine has
been worked under the bed OF Raccoon
creek and the water from the creek is now
filling the mine. The water runs into the
mine faster than it can be pumped out.
A bout seventy men are thrown out of en-
ployment.
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