The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-07-13
Brief State Items.

slipped on pitch fork and was killed.
Judge Whistler held the Indiana anti
cigarette law constitutional and fined Clar-
ence Gilbert, of Goshen, SIS.
Because he had lost his sight, Reason
Skell, prominent man of Washington,
committed suicide by hanging.
Fletcher Fitzpatrick was seriously woun-
ded in the shoulder by q comrade at Oo-
lite. During an alteration he was shot.
Jack Lister and Herman Clinton, miners,
were seriously injured by falling slate at
the Lyford and Crown Hill mines near
| Clinton.
Harry Debrunne was drowned at South
Bend. while being held by the dirt from
cave-in. He was employed on sewer con-
| structions.
Masonic orders of northern Indiana and
southern Michigan were out in force at
South Bend, to attend the laying of the
corner stone of the new Masonic Temple
to cost $50, 1000.
! Mrs. Lydia Johnson, sister of City Mar
shall Banta of Goshen, died of injuries suS-
tanned by jumping from a moving street
car backward.
Huffman q Company, wholesale grOcers,
of Terre Haute, have bought large block
In Evansville, and will erect a warehouse
TO cost 100000.
Charles Hegwood, to escape punishment
from charge made by a 4-year-Old
adopted daughter. jumped from the win
dow of his home in Bloomington and es-
capped.
Mrs. Mary C. Snyder of North Manches-
ter, has become insane through mourning
| OveI her husbands death. Application
was made for her commitment to Long
Cliffe asylum.
Mrs. Sophia Spinn, 90 years old. is dead
at Reynolds, as the result of fall from a
wagon, which broke her neck. She was
an old resident of Reynolds and owned
much land in that vicinity.
While unloading steel from car, Lewis
Girardot, an employee of the traction COM
pany at Monroeville, had his foot caught
between rail and the car breaking it be-
tween the ankle and the knee.
While endeavoring to save her 2-year-old
baby, which had wandered into sawmill,
Mrs. Daniel Rowland of Whitley county,
CduShb bCl ShtA ID III a SnoAt anu w do iAuAlO0
about with terrific force. She will die.
The three-stOry brick hotel building in
North Anderson, vacated month ago by
Charles c. Carpenter of Indianapolis, and
owned by the Quartermont brothers of
Point Marion, Pa: was totally destroyed
by fire.
The body of Edward Luscher, we'll
known merchant of Michigan City, who
fell from a launch and was drowned in
Lake Michigan several weeks ago, was re-
covered by fishermen who were using a
drag net.
Wayne Greenwood of Butler, was ar
rested on charge of attempted misc0n-
duet with little girl of that town. He
was given hearing before Mayor HaZzlet
and was placed under 5000 bond TO await
action by the grand jury. lie went TO jail.
Mayor Mock of Bluffton, has dismissed
William Mcconnell, chief of the fire de-
partment, and appointed ID. w. Clark in
his place. Mcconnell was charged with
violating orders in the management of the
department. Clark, the new chief, is a
timer by trade.
Madame Clara Boyd, an arial performer
with a carnival company, making death
slide' from the courthouse tower at Hart
ford City, fastened TO the wire by her hair,
struck the blanket with such force that it
was torn from the grip of the men who
were holding it, and her arm was broken.
Harry, the 1O-year- old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. III. Davis of Nobleyille, was killed
by railway train at Colorado Springs,
Col. He was accompanying his parents
on pleasure trip through the west When
the accident occurred. The bog was cross
ing the track when the engine struck him,
the wheels almost severing his head from
the body.
Gordon, the 3-year-old son of John
Wentworth of Elkhart, was accidentally
shot in the right hand by a blank cartridge
Last Fourth of July similar accident oc-
Cured to his left hand, which nearly
caused his death from blood poisoning.
On the Fourth the year before his face was
filled with powder, the result of the pre-
mature discharge of cannon.
A distressing accident occurred at the
farm of Jesse Burford, Wayeland, which
resulted in his 6-year-old son John being
dragged to death. The little fellow was
leading his pet pony about the place, with
the halter strap tied to his arm. He STUN
bled and fell, frightening the pony, which
ran for half mile, dragging the boys body
far enough behind for his head to be struck
by the pony's heels. The father witnessed
thewhole affair, butwas powerless to help.
His head was battered to pulp.
A burglar was discovered in the Lesh
Bros store at Markle, by Lee Laturnere,
night Waterman, who notified three other
persons, and a guard was thrown around
the building. As the burglar appeared he
was shot in the back, and when within
reach Laturnere grappled with him and
threw him down, but was compelled to re-
lease his hold after he had been shot in the
wrist. The burglar fired three shots as he
made his way to his buggy and drove
away. Only S. was taken from the store.
An oil well on the E. NJ. Clough farm,
six miles north of Union City, proves to be
a gusher. When the drill was removed
from the well the Oil spouted out over the
derrick. This is the first well within
twenty-five miles of Union City to produce
oil and there is much excitement.
Hardin Amy and George Goldsmith,
fishermen at New Amsterdam, quarreled
over the disputed ownership of fish, until
both of them resorted to shotguns. Amy
was shot in the head and Goldsmith i'm the
breast, but neither was fatally wounded.