The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-17
Brief State Items.

DhiSA ObotC AtCnes
Pietro Fraucone q years old, was killed
by fall of slate in the Glenn mine at Coal
Bluff
Harry Haas was arrested at Fruitdale,
Ala. He is accused of taking $1,000 from
the Peoples bank at Darlington.
Ethel M;lburn, Is years old, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Milburn of Lapel,
committed suicide by swallowing carbolic
acid
William Bassler of Petersburg, shot and
fatally wounded Ira Tyler, aged 10, on
finding the latter in his watermelon patch.
Bassler is under arrest
ID. f. Druly, manager of the Eastern In
surance Company for Indiana, was as
saulted and robbed of 500 on the streets Of
ElwOOd. He was struck on the head and
rendered unconscious.
Tobias Mitchell, aged Is, was killed at
Hekland, near Terre Haute while play
fully scufiing with some companions. He
fell from short distance and when picked
up his neck was broken.
Ananias Baker, the Fulton county legis-
latOr of anti-cigarette fame, has accepted
an invitation from the Logansport Labor
and Trades Assembly TO make the Labor
day speech in that city.
j. G. Nordella, a Terre Haute contractor,
working at present in South Bend, has been
left a fortune of sl25,OO0 by an uncle who
died in Spain. Nordella has been sum-
moned to be in Madrid August Is.
The postoffice at Midway was entered by
burglars and robbed of $50. BloodhOun6s
failed to trace the intruders. Tie pOstmas-
ter announced that he would pay the money
and would not report to the government.
John Rosencranze, a well drilier, struck
an artesian we'll on the Robert HutchinSoa
farm north of Arlington, at a depth Of
sixty-six feet, which throws a stream of
waite. four feet above the top of the ground.
David Reed of Hamlet, So years old, shot
and killed his wife and walked four miles
to the Kankakee river and drowned him
self. No reason is known for the act ex-
cept that his wife wanted to return to
Michigan.
Charles Wicket, painter, fell fifty feet
from the top of fiat building at Richmond,
and suffered injuries which may prove ia
tai. The scatfold on which Wicket was
standing gave way and be struck on brick
sidewalk.
Ball Brothers have installed eleven blow
ing machines in the Marion fruit jar fac
tory, and other machinery is being placed
in position. The firm promises to have the
factory in operation September /, giving
employment to 400 men.
The large sawmill at WoOdburn, in the
eastern part of Allen county, caught fire
and was burned. The workmen and others
kept the fire from spreading to the lumber
yard. The loss will amount TO 81 800, and
there is only $4OO insurance.
The Knights of Pythias will build
$50, 900 temple in Charlottesville this year,
and have taken options on several desir-
able downtown sites. They purpose put
ting up four-tory Office building, using
the top floor for lodge purposes.
Between 10000 and 1900 people visited
Mounds park, near Anderson, the occasion
being band contest IN which bands from
Marion, Muncie, Peru, Upton and kOkomo
took part. The $500 prize was divided
equally between the contestants.
Congressman Lands has recommended
Charles Tyler for postmaster at IaFOun
tain, Wabash county. There had been a
hard fight on for the place between j. L.
Thompson, Orph Sailors and Mr. Tyler.
The office pays about $1,000 year.
Bogus dimes are afOat at Leesburg and
other towns in Kosciusko county. Some
body has been plating ordinary copper
cents with silver wash and has passed
them in large numbers on unsuspecting
business men at night, when they would
ns. be subjected to close examination.
The loss resulting from the electric and
wind storm which wrecked the galvanized
wire department of the Kokomo mill. is es-
timated by officials of the company to be
100000. with insurance amounting to
$4,000. Four hundred men will be without
employment until the plant can be rebuilt,
which will be about six months.
The fourth annual reunion of the One
hundred and sixty first Indiana Volunteer
Infantry will be held in Nashville, Thurs
day, September H. About 300 soldiers are
expected to attend. The One-hundred- and
sixty first, of which Ex-Governor w. Il.
Durbin of Anderson, was colonel, served
in Cuba during the Spanish-American
war.
ernor Hanly TO stop gambling at French
Lick and West Baden, the Casino at French
Lick, where gambling has been going on,
has been closed. The closing of the Casino
is understood to have resulted from the ac-
ton of Governor Hanly in sending two
personal representatives to French Lick
and West Baden to investigate the alleged
gambling conditions there
The merger of the White National bank
with the First National bank at Fort
Wayne, was effected on a basis of 500
share for three-fourths of the stock
of each stakeholder i'm the White bank who,
if he insists on selling out entirely, will re-
ceye only $500 a share for his stock The
details have all been arranged except the
formalities of a called meeting of the stock
holders The new bank will take the name
of the First National and will probably
begin business September /.
Louis Traugott, a saloonkeeper. living at
S2S Warren avenue, Indianapolis. killed
himself by swallowing carb0lic acid at his
home. He left two letters addressed to his
widow and children, respectively, in which
he said he was s'down and OUT financially
as the result of being ''good fellow
Two boys swimming in Wildcat creek,
five miles east of Lafayette. discovered a
burning bridge on the Wabash railroad
and fiagped the Continental Limited the