The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-09-28
Brief State Items.

Scott Mcclure, a saloon keeper at Terre
Haute, committed suicide by drown
ing in the Wabash river. He had been
drinking.
The Merchants Association of Bedford
is arranging for two-day horse show. to
he he'd on the public square about the
middle of October
Ray Weeks, aged IL. of Terre Haute, who
prepared meals for his father, his mother
being dead, was burned TO death by the
explosion of a gasoline stove.
The body of George Boyer was found
near watering trough on the farm of
Chris Popp, four miles west of Evansville.
IL is supposed that he was killed by
horse.
Burglars entered the residence of Don
Armstrong at Laporte, drugged Mr.. and
Ms. Armstrong and Mrs. Clint BROKER,
a guest, and secured 5000 in money and
jewelry.
Louis Young, aged 20. of Evansville,
was shot in the arm by Charles NJ. Met
| calf, aged q. The youths quarreled over
a girl. Metcalf, who resides at Danville,
KY, escaped.
Commodore Reprogle of Monticello, has
been committed to prison under the indie
terminate sentence act for assaulting Flor
ence Denton, 8 years old. The defendant
| is So years old.
Frank Bailey, a 13-year-old boy OF AL
bany, was arrested at Sandusky, Ohio,
charged with having broken into the resi-
derce of Sylvester SeltZ of Albany. Secur-
ing about 500 in gold.
| The large barn on the Elizabeth Rigdon
farm, in Van Buren, township, Shelby
| county, was entirely destroyed by fire,
caused by spontaneous combustion. Loss,
$1,000, with 500 insurance
While Jesse Flauding, near Bryant, was
assisting in the removal of some oil ma
chinery, smokestack fell on his head,
cutting deep cash in the scalp, bruising
| his shoulder and breaking both bones of
one leg.
Charles NJ. johnson, who went to Penn
vile to establish himself in business. be-
came discouraged at the outlook and at
| tempted suicide by cutting his throat with
a bread knife. He was former resident
of Dundee.
No trace of either Obadiah F. Bowman
or Oliver o. Jones, the two men who re-
Gently broke jail at Rushville, have been
received. Sheriff cambridge has increased
the reward for information leading to their
arrest TO $50 for each man. All police de-
partments have been notified.
The family of Charles Salzman of Prince
| ton, had a narrow escape from being
burned to death when the dwelling was
destroyed by fire. The household was
awakened as the roof began tumbling in,
and the inmates fled in their night clothes.
| Mr.. Salzman was slightly burned.
John Glenn, farmer, near New Albany,
accused of insulting women, has been fined
$50 and costs and committed to Jail six
months, on confession of guilt He was
arrested by indignant women, armed with
corn knives, who surrounded him in field
and held him till the police arrived.
South bound passenger train on the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois railway
came in collision with a freight train at a
point eight miles north of Terre Haute.
The passenger engine was damaged, and
| several of the freight cars were tumbled
into the ditch, but no one was injured.
Three people were killed at Kimmel by
Baltimore d Ohio passenger train ''side
swiping" light engine which had taken a
| switch for the passenger to pass. The dead
are: Engineer Stephen Snyder of the pas
senger train; Baggagemaster Frank Shoots
| of Chicago junction, Ohio, and Walter
Wilson, supposed to be from GAINESVILLE,
| Ohio.
Owing to the unexpected withdrawal of
the $4,000 deposited by ex-Auditor Sher-
rick in the Farmers and Merchants Bank
at Cicero, slight run was made on the
bank. The directors assured the deposit
tors that they had sufficient funds on hand
to meet their obligations and as a conse-
quence only few hundred dollars were
| withdrawn.
Fire destroyed barn owned by Column
bus Gladish, three miles west of Peters
burg, and the home of Mrs. Sarah Butler,
two miles distant. Only one shoe was
saved from the Butler home. Loss on the
barn is 5000, and on the residence $500.
Fire also destroyed the residence of Isaac
Murray in Petersburg, cremating him in
the ruins. He was seen going home in an
intoxicated condition. His wife and son
were away at the time, and be is supposed
to have fallen with a lamp. His body was
recovered in a badly eharred condition.
Property loss. $780,
Boron Kun0v0neltZ, a member of the
German nobility. who has been studying
American methods of operating railroad
that he might give his knowledge to the
government of Germany, was probably
fatally injured in the Michigan Central
shops at Michigan City, where he has been
employed as foreman for the past six
months, by being caught between an
engine tender and a turn-table. The
nobleman's chest was crushed and internal
injuries inflicted. During the three years
he has bsen there he has worked i'm every
department of railroad operation.
While he was crossing car line in
Anderson, William A. Carpenter, glass
worker. was struck by a Middletown
traction car and seriously injured. He
suffered injuries to his spine and was also
cut about the head.
Charles Hardin, farmer of Pulaski
county, went to bis barn to feed his horses,
and while reaching to bin that contained
oats he was struck in the face by four
foot rattle snake, whose fangs were so
deeply imbedded in the muscles of Mr..
Hardin's face that the snake could not be
released until its head was cut off and the
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