The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-10-19
Brief State Items.

ed by coal train on the Monon railroad
near Swift City. He was So years old.
Thomas Colyin, an employee of the South
ern railroad shops at Princeton, was fatally
hurt by being crushed between two cars.
Norman Shaner, aged 5, son of Edward
Shaner of Geneva, was run over 10y a
Grand Rapids d Indiana freight train and
killed.
n. c. Little, telephone lineman at
Terre Haute, fell forty feet from pole af-
ter touching live wire, and was fatally
injured.
Richard Pride, well-to-do farmer,
aged 60, who lives at Orwell, hanged him
self in his barn. His mind was affected by
sunstroke.
The Maring- Hart bottle factory at Dun
kirk has resumed operations with force
of over 500 men and boys The weekly
pay roll will reach $1,000.
The home of Nathaniel Stultz, town
clerk and treasurer OF 0olitic, together with
contents, was destroyed by fire, causing a
loss of s, LOCO, with no insurance
Tony Nocci, % years old, an empicye at
brickyard in South Bend was caught in
belt and an arm was pulled from his
body. He died shortly after the accident.
Safe blowers entered John J. HarrisOn's
department store at Clayton, and with q
powerful charge of dynamite, shattered
the safe, making their escape with about
$50.
The crossing of the Dayton and Muncie
traction line over the Big Four tracks east
of Winchester was torn out by railroad
employees, loaded on freight ears and haul
ed away. An engine is guarding the right
of way.
| w. A. Beasley, well known business
man of Linton, died from the effects of
burns received several months ago while
taking X-Ray treatment. He was 5S years
years old.
Robert Knuckles of Salem, and Marius
Criswell, young man of the country south
of there, have been arrested on the charge
of perjury, the result of an investigation
by the grand jury.
The dead body of Nettie Shady, the 1S-
year-old daughter of Frank Shady, was
found in a spring on her fathers farm near
Hicks, Jefferson county. The girl was
subject to fainting spells.
Philip Eiseman, aged 20, of New Albany,
| during fight with Henry Soergel, was
| badly cut with a knife. the blade penetrat-
ing one lung. The fight was about a girl
both were paying attentions TO.
| Daniel j. Kinney, banker of Angola,
was released from the state prison in Mich
igan City, after serving one year. He was
convicted of receiving deposits after the
institution had become insolvent.
Fire destroyed the Knight Bros. cream
cry and poultry-house at GAINESVILLE, caus-
ing loss of $1,000. The village bucket
| brigade prevented spread of the fire TO
| the general store and contiguous property.
The body of a man dead two months was
found in a ravine near Terre Haute with
a rifle at its side, in which there was an
exploded cartridge The body cannot be
identified. The man was apparently so
years old.
Carl, the 11-year-old son of Thomas
Rodgers, farmer living near NOblesyille,
fell from load of corn. The wheels of
the wagon passed over his chest, infiict-
ing internal injuries from which he can
not recover.
Abe Mack of Bloomfield was sentenced
to the Indiana Reformatory, at Jefferson
vile, for from two to fourteen years. for
| firing upon the town marshal, Ben Nc
Laughlin, while the latter was trying to
arrest him for disturbance.
Ellsworth Perdue Of Winslow, under
took to battle his eyes with lotion, and,
instead, substituted carbolic acid. not dis
covering the mistake till the sting of the
acid made the error apparent. He is
threatened with total blindness.
Horace Meyers. q years old, who was
taken i'll with yellow fever after he had re-
turned home from Madison Parish, La,
died at the pest hon sc three miles north of
Marion. Meyers as the son of the Rev.
ID. i. Meyers, chaplain of the Marion Sol
diers' home.
j. r. Bennett of Koleen, in prospecting,
has found a vein of lead in Green county,
that is said to be fifty per cent pure. At
the opening it is about three feet thick. In
dications are that the hills ON the east side
of White river are full of ORE Options are
being taken ON all land that can be got
hold of
w. III. Hawkins of Indianapolis, ex-
OHlOcu CtdlcS uidISHdi lOI tut ulStTlcI OF
Indiana, died suddenly on an interurban
electric car in Anderson. Death was due
to heart depressing drug. Headache
powders were found in the pockets of the
dead mans clothing and the coroner said
the powders contained more acitanelid than
anything else. There was no evidence of
suicide.
A labor famine exists in Kokomo and
Howard county. Farmers have never, in
their experience, found it more difficult TO
get enough men to care for the corn gath
ering and the garnering of other crops
The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, which
will make extensive alterations and i'm
provements in the Kokoma plant, has adj
vertised for 100 men to carry forward the
work, but not half the number have re-
sponded to the demand.
Fire in the Club cigar store, in the In
gram hotel at Hartford City, almost ere
ated panic among the que Is in the hotel
when the alarm was sounded The fire
originated in waste-paper basket. The
damage was slight, but the excitement in
the hotel was great
Earl Rang of Auburn, Baltimore &
Ohio fireman, died at the Sacred Heart
hospital in Garrett, from injuries which he
received at Deshler, Ohio. Two engines
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