The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-02-09
Brief State Items.

The Rev. ID. A. Whit OF FranclSyllle,
has accepted a call to the pastorate of the
Christian Church at Rolling Prairie.
Three live foxes were captured as the re-
suit of fox chase north of Peru, partici-
pated in by a large number of people.
Miss Lena Knowland of Anderson has
been commissioned as a pension agent,
succeeding her late father, j. I. Know
land.
Mrs. J. H Burnett of South Bend, "a
years of age, regained her hearing, of which
she has been deprived twelve years, shortly
before her death.
Joseph Steinbarger of Scatterville, at
tempted to drive a heifer into a pen and
the animal attacked him, knocking him
down and goring him severely.
James Olandringham, miner, of Clinton,
was fatally injured by the fall of slate, two
of the vertebre of the spinal column being
fractured and the spinal cord injured.
Mrs Cephas CANCER, wife of a farmer,
hanged herself in a barn at her home near
Millersburg Long ill health and an un-
balanced mind prompted the woman to end
her life
Edward Clark, % years of age, threatens
to sue the city of Goshen for $4,000 dam
ages because he was arrested for drunken
ness when he was suffering from an attack
of epilepsy.
John Gray, go years of age, was found
dead in bed at bis home in Nappanee. His
wife called him to breakfast and receiving
no response investigated, discovering that
life was extinct.
The glass workers of Muncie are further
ing the idea of establishing a national me-
mortal day for glass workers. The move
ment has the support of unions all over
the United States.
Congressman Brick has set the machinery
of the United States geological survey in
motion to discover if possible some way to
reclaim the vast Kankakee marshes in
Northern Indiana.
Children eli route home from school at
ST. Paul, discovered the residence of Roy
Pearce on fire and they gave the alarm
with such promptness that the property
was saved without material loss.
Harvey Porter Layton of Dresser, a poet
of more than local fame, and a newspaper
writer, is seriously i'll at his fathers home,
taking open air treatment for his all
ment, which is pulmonary in its nature.
r. II. Williams of Anderson has been
advised that his uncle, Brice Powers of
Delaware County, who fell several days
ago breaking his left hip. is not likely to
recover. Brice Powers is a twin brother
to Reason Powers, near Middlet0wn.
They celebrated their ninetieth birthday
recently.
Emerson Lathrop of Delphi, the young
business man who suddenly disappeared
some days ago, is believed to have gone to
Cuba. All of his accounts have been
Strengthened by John Kerlin. his father-in-
law, and there is no reason why he should
not return, but it is understood that it is
| his intention to remain away.
The Reid Memorial Hospital, which is
to take the place of st. Stephens Hospital
at Richmond, is rapidly nearing compile
ton, work having been pushed throughout
the winter. The interior finishing is now
| in progress. The trustees of the hospital
and the medical board of st. Stephens
Hospital are now considering the purchase
of equipment and arrangements will be
made to have the furnishings in place and
the institution ready for occupancy by the
middle of the coming summer.
Thirty years ago the Rev. William B.
Schmidt came to Muncie to take charge of
a small Catholic Mission and has remained
there since as pastor of the st. Lawrence
Catholic Church. Recently his parishion-
ers, who now number 800, gave him sur
prise celebration, at which they gave him
| 81 ,OOO which they had subscribed among
themselves. He is one of the few irremov-
able rectors in Indiana, and bears the title
of rural dean and diocesan conferee, as
well as other titles won by long service.
An echo of the Newton tragedy came at
Portland in the sale of the old Newton
homestead farm to j. NJ. Headington and
James o. Hamilton for 500 an acre. Four
years ago John and William Newton,
brothers, and both bachelors, 20 years old
respectively, were cremated in their home.
They were worth 500, 900 but they lived
alone. 1t was always thought there was
foul play in the burning of their home;
that the men were killed and robbed, after
which the torch was applied to hide the
crime.
James Sexton of Washington, is dead of
blood poisoning, resulting from burn.
He was SO years old. At the outbreak of
the Civil War, Sexon, then living in Mis-
souri,, espoused the Union cause, while his
wife's relatives were secessionists. This
| led to a quarrel, in which Sexton shot his
brother-in-law to death, and then fed to
Indiana, settling in Washington County.
His home was in sparsely settled part of
the county, and it was strongly barricaded,
that he might resist any attempt to take
him back to Missouri. Several attempts in
that direction failed. The old home still
stands, and the devices which he con-
structed for self-protection can still be
seen.
With the mercury below zero, William
| Schneider's farm house at Rockdale burned
| in the night. Schneider and his wife and
| six children barely escaped alive, losing
everything. They almost persisted from
cold before reaching shelter.
A peculiar fact was brought out by the
killing Of A. C. Ruper, member of the
Woodmen of the World lodge at DEVILS
Lake, S. D.. in effect that South Bend had
two men there by the same name, with
both having relatives at South Bend. The
families were unaware of this fact until