The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-04-27
Brief State Items.

Snot gun dt UrdnuVleW, W AFTER hay, aged
l6, blew off the head of Wallace Thorpe, his
companion, killing him instantly.
A team of horses frightened at an engine,
ran into an iron pole on Walnut street,
Muncie, near the union depot. The driver,
Earl Poland, ~, was instantly killed.
The general store of Britain & Goble and
the hardware store of Goble & Farr at Par
agon, were robbed OF merchandise worth
several hundred dollars and the township
school funds.
Grubbs & Company of Cambridge City,
whose grain elevator burned last fall, with
loss of $4,000, are erecting new buildings
with capacity not exceeded by any ele-
vator in the state
The blowing out of a tube in large
boiler in the Marion paper mills caused
fatal injury to Joseph Geisman, 81 years
old. He was burned about the head by the
flames and steam.
The murder trial of Edgar and Oscar
Jarboe at Tell City, for killing Henry Cody
III November last, has been postponed
until June IL, owing to the absence of an
important witness.
Unknown trespassers bombarded the
front of W. III. McAlvain's drug store at
Jolietville, breaking windows and damag
ing the interior. The animus is attributed
TO a strong temperance sentiment.
While Labor srs were excavating under
the ruins of the old Middlebury street
school building at Elkhart, they unearthed
a number of human bones and one skeleton
intact, probably theremains of early settlers.
John Godfrey, an Indian descendant of
chieftain, was badly scalded while at work
at the Wayne Knitting Mills, Fort Wayne,
where he secured work soon after his re-
lease pending retrial on charge of killing
his father.
Michael Sheets, formerly wealthy farmer
of Clinton county, has been committed
to the county infirmary at Frankfort. to
spend the remainder of his days. He is
alone in the world, and his property is all
gone. He is so years old and feeble.
Mont C. Heal of Jonesboro, was fatally
injured in gas explosion at The tinplate
companys pumping station. a heavy iron
door was torn from its hinges and struck
Heal on the back of his head. His skull
was fractured, and ply sicians say he cam
not recover.
The recently discovered mineral springs
at Blue Lake, near Churubusco, are becom-
ing so popular that Oscar Candy, who owns
the Candy landing, is arranging for COM
pany to erect sanitarium and hotel. The
waters are rich in lithium, and are said to
be effecting some wonderful cures.
While workmen were excayating for the
approach 70 the bridge west of Williams
port, they uncovered den of snakes. Ten
blue racers and six blacksnakes were killed,
their collective length sixty three feet nine
inches. The snakes were twined about one
another, and were easily dispatched.
The heirs of the late Mrs. Wilhelmina
Kerr of Columbus, brought suit against
their father, Chas. b. Kerr, demanding
s6,A7.66 on note and mortgage. The chill
dren claim that they inherited s2,7OO from
their mother, which they loaned to their
father, and that the principal and interest
now amount to what is claimed.
The body of George Dodge was found in
a creek near his home in Monticello. Mr..
Dodge had been in failing health for several
months, but started for a walk and did not
return. Search was made for him, and his
body was found in a small stream hear his
home. The body lay in the brook face
downward, with the head under a board.
1t is supposed he tainted and fell into the
creek.
Capt. David Allen, superintendent of the
Jacksonville Water Supply Company, is
pouring water at the rate of nearly three
quarters of million gallons day into the
Ohio river from his experimental pumping
station, which is being run to test the capac-
ity of the new source of water supply, Just
tapped above Jeffersonville. The test will
continue for a month, and if satisfactory.
permanent plant will be put down.
For the first time in many years the Wa
bash river is being used for transportation
purposes. The Lafayette Engineering
Company is shipping stone down the river
to Cayuga, for the construction of a wagon
bridge. The stone is loaded from the Car
michael sandstone quarry into barges.
which are propelled by gasoline launches.
A carload of stone is taken with each trip.
and round trip is made every day.
Leonard Nugent, the 9-year-old son of
William Nugent, living near Let's, was
fearfully mangled by the explosion of a
stick of dynamite with which he was play
ing. The boys father had been blowing
some stumps with the dynamite and had
hung up some sticks OF the explosive in the
wOodh0use. While no one was about the
boy took one of the sticks into the house
and lighted the fuse. He cannot live.
Elkhart fishermen have organized fish
ermen's league to put stop to the netting
of fish by professionals in northern Indiana
and southern Michigan lakes. It's asserted
that the laws are being grossly violated.
The Presbyterian church at Elkhart re-
Gently, on twenty-four hours notice.
secured 800 blue gills for church supper
from one of the men suspected. Prominent
amateur fishermen say they have evidence
sufficient to convict
A clock. known as the Leesburch. is the
property of Mrs. ii. c. Meeker of Milton.
having come to her by line of descent. II
indicates the days of the month, the time of
every nation on the globe, the time of eleven
of the principal cities of the world, and has
eleven dials. One OF these is furnished with
two sets of hands, that run i'm opposite
directions, one indicating local time. and
the other the time of Pekin, China. II has |
two bells, one of which strikes the hours.
the other the quarter hours. II also PLAYS
twelve tunes. The works are enclosed in a |
glass case, and its complicated movements,
can be seen on all Sides