The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-24
Brief State Items.


fatally shot in the forehead by her son,
aged years, who playfully pointed gun
at her and pulled the trigger.
Dependent because hail storm dam
aged his crops to the amount of $1,000, Ed
ward Smith, farmer near Washington,
committed suicide by jumping into a
well.
Death from eating dynamite was the fate
of a COW on the farm of Adam Baker at
Shipshewana. The animal had eaten fif-
teen pounds of explosives and died in ter
rible agony.
An indianapolis passenger train on the
Big Four struck Noah w Dewey, who was
driving over crossing in Goshen. The
wagon was reduced TO splinterS and Dewey
fatally injured.
The Veedersburg street fair, the original
street fair, known as the Daddy of EN-
ALL" will be held the last week in October
as heretofore. 1t is hoped that ABE
Martin" will attend
Oscar F. Trier, aged %, Postal Tele
graph lineman at Fort Wayne, while work.
ing on an iron bridge crossbeam, grasped
the traction company's 2,0O0-yolt wire and
was killed by the shock.
Charles Davis, member of Company l.,
who was in camp with the company at
Fort Benjamin Harrison. was killed by
Wabash train near Buck Creek, west of
Delphi, while returning home.
The barn of the Stanley Lockwood farm
near BlufftOn. was struck by lightning and
burned. This is the sixth barn in the
county to be struck within one week. The
total loss on the barn is $4,000.
James ShOwley and Ernest Campbell,
both young men, drove into barn near
! Wynn Station TO escape a storm. Light
ming struck the barn, killing both men.
The barn was partially destroyed and the
horse was killed.
Joining themselves into a human chain,
Allen Kuntz and Earl and Ollie Smith
saved the lives of Mrs. Charles Reese and
her children, of Elkhart, who were sinking
for the third time in the ''Old swimmn'
hole" at Highland park.
The channel between Syracuse lake and
Wawasee will be dredged this fall so that
launches can run between the lakes. A
dredge will be purchased by Syracuse peo
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About $1,000 will be expended.
There will be street fair and carnival
at Brookville the week of September IL TO
| Is. The business men will give prizes for
| farm products in addition to the regular
street fair program. A horse show, with
$500 i'm prizes, will be feature
State Senator Raphael T. Thralls and
John Patterson, both of lIymer2., purchased
a new automobile and started to Sullivan
on trial trip. When nearly TO Sullivan,
gasoline leaked from the tank and set the
machine on fire, completely destroying it.
Howard Meeker, aged IL, of Princeton,
was fatally injured by being dragged sew
eral squares by a runaway COW. He had
tied the lead rope around his waist. The
COW became frightened and ran, dragging
him over the rough pavement and tearing
his face to ribbons.
Henry c. D. Frida, VINO figured in the
sensational COesse barn burning shooting,
was able 20 leave the hospital at Fort
Wayne and return to Coesse, where he
will remain with his wife's parents until
he RECEIVERS. No charges have been pre-
ferred against him.
The eastern part of Iiillsboro, known as
Fair View, is excited over the appearance
of an alleged ghost. The specter is said to
appear in a long black dress and wears a
long and heavy veil. 1t seems to sail
through the air and disappears as quickly
as it comes. 1t has been named the "Mys-
terious Woman in Black"
Two fighting dogs caused an automobile
accident in West Lafayette, in which Mrs
Mary Williams was seriously injured. She
was riding in an electric runabout with
Prof l.. ID. Nordstrum of Purdue Univer-
sity, and the machine overturned when it
struck the dogs. Mrs. Williams left wrist
was broken and she was internally hurt.
A wind, hail and rain storm did thOus-
ands of dollars worth of damage at Union
City. The upper portion of the Sullivan
block was blown away, the wreckage fall
ling on the track and wires of the Dayton
& Muncie traction line, delaying traffic
Several other buildings were blown down.
The damage TO tobacco ty hail is estimated
at 5000.
An explosion in an abandoned well in
front of the S,rug store of NJ. C. McCarty at
Pennville, resulted in the serious injury of
seven men, McCarty, with H. L. Stephen
son. lifted the cover from the top OF the
well and lighted match to examine the
] interior, when an explosion followed, ac-
cumulated gas having been ignIted. The
men were knocked down and their faces
and hands were enveloped in flames
Harry Jones, confessed forger, who
was being held in the new $4,000 Jail at
| Marion, made his escape by leaping into
the dumb waiter, used to send food from
the kitchen, in the basement. to the three
floors above. Jones was on the third floor.
He was employed in cleaning the outer
corridor, in company with two other pris-
oners. The jailer was in another part of
the building Jones. after his quick slide,
escaped through the basement.
DR.. Charles Seitz, son of Louis Seitz, a
wholesale grocer of Evansville, is with the
Z.egler polar expedition, which has re-
Gently been reached by the relief. Dr.
Seitz left Evansville two years ago last
Nav and his father has received no word
from him since a few months after he left
Lett Houston, head beaterman at the
Beveridge paper mills, West Maryland
street and White river, indianapolis, was
torn to pieces by belt which he was adj
justing on pulley. While adjusting the
belt he was caught and " hirled about until
an arm and a leg were torn off and his
head was broken in two.
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