The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-10-26
Brief State Items.


Glen Robinson, contractor and farmer,
was fatally hurt at Hartford City in run
away.
George Kapper, aged 81, employed by the
Big Four Stone Company, was killed at
Newport by falling derrick.
While asleep Michael Busch of Michigan
City, walked out of hayloft and fell to
the ground, breaking his neck.
Russell, the 5-year-old son of Thomas
Hildebrand of Dale, fell head foremost into
lime pit and will lose the sight of both
eyes.
Elmer Cochran, aged years, of Evans
vile, was pushed into tub of boiling
water by pet dog and died in an hour of
his scalds.
John Morris was dragged to death in
field near North Vernon, while drilling in
wheat. His team became frightened and
ran away.
l.. G. Hughes, aged 80, was instantly
killed while unloading logs at sawmill
at ClOyerdale. A heavy log rolled on him,
crushing his head.
While Sheriff York was removing lun-
VIM. Ramer, charged with grand larceny,
slipped by and escaped.
Diphtheria is epidemic at Princeton and
an extra policeman has been put on to en-
force the quarantine. The death rate has
been seyenty-fve per cent.
A 3-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hibner of Monticello, fell out of
hammock at the home of John Meter near
Rossyille and broke her neck.
Jacob Miller, a contractor of st. Paul,
was shot by John Slifer, a saloonkeeper of
that Town. There had been i'll feeling be-
tween the two men for some time. Miller
may die.
Charles Rock of South Bend, while hunt
ing, dropped his pipe, and in STOPPING over
to pick it up, he accidentally discharged
the shotgun he was carrying, killing him
self instantly.
| Twenty-Five laborers narrowly escaped
death when thirteen horsepower gaso-
line engine operating concrete mixer ex-
| plOded on the streets at Hartford City. No
one was injuel.
Johnny Pipher, an Orange county youth
who, after attending the recent street car
nival at Paoli, attempted to do bareback
stunt on the back of steer, is now suffer-
ing from fractured collar bone.
Business was suspended at Bluffton dur
ing the funeral of the late Judge Joseph 5.
Daley. Six members of the Indiana Su-
preme Court and 100 attorneys from sur
rounding cities were in attendance.
Lew Franks of Anderson, formerly agent
for a brewing company, attempted to COM
NIT suicide by cutting his throat with a
pen knife. The wound is q bad one but it
is possible that Franks will recover.
Because Andrew Woods remained too
! long in Jesse JacksOn's home at Evans
vile, when Jackson wanted to retire, the
latter struck him on the head with brick
and Woods died. Both are cOlored. Jack
son was arrested and charged with murder.
Thirty shots were fired in a revolver
fight which Marshal Dan Riley of Green
town, Howard county, had with three
thieves he caught in the act of forcing a
door at the rear of store there. None of
the shots took effect. The robbers escaped.
AS result of the unusually warm au-
tumn strawberries all over Southern Indi-
ana are yielding remarkably heavy Sec
ond crop. The berries are much better in
size and quality than the first crop and if
heavy frost does not come the yield will be
a record breaker.
While repairing a steam pipe in the
Wilke Manufacturing Company's plant at
Anderson, John Boon, 40 years old, was
caught by revolving shaft and killed.
His body was wound so tightly about the
shaft that several minutes elapsed before it
it could be released.
Robbers who, it is believed, have been
looting railway cars throughout northern
Indiana for several months overpowered
the telegraph operator in the Pere Mar
quette switch tower in the sand dunes east
of Michigan City ana obtained all of his
money and jewelry.
The Terrell opera house building at
Bluffton, built by John Terrell, the alleged
slayer of Melvin Wolfe, was sold at re-
ceiver's sale to the Union National Savings
and Loan Association of Indianapolis, the
only bidder, for $4,000. The property
vas valued at $4,000.
Michael Mates, age % years, was killed
by Wabash engine in the east rail yards
at Fort Wayne. While riding bicycle he
encountered trains going in opposite di-
rections. and while watching one he neg
lected to get out of the way of the other.
The body was badly mutilated-
AS result of shooting ARRAY at Free
landsville, Herman Pepmeier, farmer, is
dead, and Joseph Noting, 26 years old, is
prisoner in the Knox county Jail. The
shooting occurred in Bakers saloon in
Freelandsville. Noting formerly worked
for Pepmeier on the latter's farm
John Pinquoid, proprietor of cafe at
Bourbon, shot himself through the brain,
using rifle, and died instantly. He was
respondent over business affairs. William
Slough, also of Bourbon, swallowed NOR
phine to end his troubles, and died. He
was Just recovering from the effects of ex-
cessive dissipation.
While riding to a fire on hose wagon
at New Castle, Councilman v. NJ Menden-
hall was thrown from his seat when the
wheels struck curve in a car track and
dragged two hundred feet. He escaped
with severe bruises.
While an engine on the Evansville and
Newbery Suburban road at Newburg was
coming down grade from a coal mine at
rapid speed, Engineer George Burk saw
Stella Peters, aged 8, standing on the track.
He reversed the engine but saw he could