The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-04-13
Brief State Items.

James Helms, farmer, living near the
village of Cooper, says pack of wolves
raided his flock of sheep, killing one and
carrying off lamb.
The Rev. e. s. Binford and wife, en-
gagged in missionary work in Japan for five
! years, will soon sail for America, and will
arrive in Richmond early in Nay.
Frank Rucker, son of j. 5. Rucker, neal
/ Seymour, was fatally hurt while coupling
cars at Linton. He was a switchman in
the employ of the Indiana Southern.
In an exhibition baseball game. James
Sheets, pitcher for the louisville Grays; was
struck by batted ball. His thumb was
broken and two fingers were dislOcated.
While playing in the yard. the 3-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Wafer,
living eight miles south of Paragon, fell
into an Abandoned well and was drowned.
John A. Jackson's barn near South
Bend, burned under mysterious circum-
stances, with thirteen valuable cattle, nine
horses, nine hogs and much other property.
Loss $1,000.
John White, a well-known farmer. near
Princeton, fell while carrying harrow,
the teeth penetrating his brain and lungs.
He lived but few hours. He leaves wife
and three children.
The Board of Commissioners of Newton
county awarded the contract for a new
court house to Erick Lund of Hammond.
The building is to be constructed in the
court house square at Kentland at a cost of
81, 1875.
By a mistake in the turn of a valve. hot
water instead of cold was turned on while
he was adjusting a hose in the Tin Plate
Works at Anderson, and Edward Davis,
workman, was fatally scalded. His legs
and one side were literally cooked.
The Lincoln cedar tree, planted by LIS
coin at the old Lincoln homestead in Lin
coin City, is dying, and the owner, A. j.
RhOades, is negotiating for the sale of it to
Eastern parties The contemplated use is
not known, but it is to be sold intact.
Albert G. Hashberger, age 40 years, fell
from haymow in Heffner livery barn at
Lafayette, and broke his neck, dying at the
hospital an hour later. Hashberger was
descending from the haymOw, where he
had spent the night, when he lost his bal
ance and fell.
Miss Anna Leonard, 30 years old of Con-
nersville, who had teen ill for some time
and was respondent, attempted suicide, by
throwing herself into the canal. She sank
from view, but her act was witnessed by
boys, who, with other assistance, dragged
her out. She was removed to the Elinhurst
sanitarium for treatment.
: Arrangements have been made for a TIL
county farmers institute. to be held in
, Cambridge City, next winter. Wayne.
Fayette and Henry counties have combined
to hold the institute Mrs Virginia c.
Meredith will have an active part in the
program. A corn show will be given, and
every farmer in these three counties will
, have right to exhibit his product. The
premiums are the best that have ever been
offered at an institute meeting in this city.
, The dead body of man supposed to be
, Otto Dunk of Medaryville, was found east
of Frankfort. He had been killed by the
Commercial Traveller" the fast train On
the Glover Leaf. The body was cut into at
the hips and one leg was found lying $50
feet away from the trunk of The body. The
dead man was about 80 years old. The
Oull paper llldt ndu VII lilo pCicOn Noo a
receipt for dues from the Knights of Pyth-
las lodge at Medaryyille, made out to Otto
Dunk
A clairvoyant made the statement that
! gold coins were hidden in the earth in the
yard at the home of Mrs. G.. A. Lucas, in
| Jonesboro. The person to whom she made
the statement asked permission of Mrs.
Lucas to excavate for the gold Mrs. Luz
, cas- consented and, il is said. tin box con-
: tanning large amount of gold was found.
, Mrs Lucas is said to have received $50 as
her share. but il is not known how much
was found by the person who made the
discovery.
Miss Sadie LOTUS and Mrs. Joseph
Assman of Evansville, had desperate en-
counter with a purse snatcher and came
out victors. The women were coming
down town to do some shopping, and as
they were passing an alley white man
stepped out and tried to snatch the purse
carried by Miss Lotus. She and Mrs.
! Assman beat the thief over the head with
an umbrella The man was knocked down,
) but got up and ran away. He was arrested
, and gave his name as Claude Woods. a
piano maker 1t is said Woods confessed
to the police after his arrest.
| The farm on the river road near COrydon,
in Floyd county. which was recently sold
, to William Stewart of Harrison county, for
, A.5OO, is rich in traditions. On the farm
still stands the mansion built by Joshua
Wilson, the wealthy negro, which cost
$4,000 when il was constructed in 1917,
and which was then regarded as the finest
private home in Indiana. The finest lum-
Der of the virgin forest furnished the tim
Der for the mansion. Wilson was then en-
gagged in the river trade, and owned fine
line of boats, one of which he captained in
person. The carved woodwork of the in
terror was brought from Philadelphia.
Wilson lived on his farm for thirty years,
when it passed out of his possession. In
1917 he was thought to be the richest man
in Indiana.
Mrs. Catherine Newsom Jewell of CO.
lumbus, who for several months has been
with the .sBen-Hur" company, has left
that organization and has identified herself
with an opera company in Chicago. With
the new company she will take the role Of
Marguerite in Faust"
August Rankin, Is years old, unmarried
and employed at the rolling mills in Fort
Wayne, was killed by the eastbound fast
Pennsylvania train, while on his way "a
work. He stepped off the Grand Rapids