The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-05-04
Brief State Items.


John A Bell, aged Is, was killed by the
cars at Blackburn, near Petersburg, while
stealing a ride.
Lulu Usher, years old. of RussiavilLe.
strangled to death. A grain OF coffee be-
came lodged in her windpipe.
On order of Mayor Charles G. Covert SOC
money slot machines were removed from
the saloons and billiard halls of Evansville.
The old st. Clair homestead, now the
property of William ST. Clair, near Henry
vile, was destroyed by fire with loss of
$1,000.
Moses Jordon of Russiaville, carpenter.
fell from an eight-fOOt scaffOld, striking
upon his feet with such violence as to
crush the bones of his right leg.
Ivan Barnard of Indianapolis, has bought
the harness mare, Lady Squirrel, at New
Harmony, for $500. The mare took first
prize in the last Evansville horse show.
Charles Smith, while riding on box car
in the Vandalia yards, LOgansport, was
jostled off, losing both legs. He was taken to
st. Joseph's hospital in dying condition.
The town of Auburn, with its 1000 pop
ulation, had 2Oe prisoners confined in its
Jail between January 6 and April 6, 1905.
This is at the ratio of one prisoner for
every six inhabitants.
James Lillis, employed in the Pease
foundries at Hegewisch, was caught by
belt and whipped up to the shafting, where
he was wound round and round. His
thigh and several ribs were broken.
A of Nv
and Mrs. Nick Oser of Batesville, attempted
to Chamber on the steps of the Oldenburg
hack and was thrown under it, crushing
her skull. She died in a few minutes.
The retail dry goods store of Ziesel Bros.
at Elkhart, was entered by thieves and
81 500 worth of silk was stolen. That the
robbers were experts is proved by the ease
with which they selected only the finest
grade of goods.
Winburn F. Conrad of indianapolis. says
he has invented a machine to revolutioniZe
the brickmaking industry. 1t turns out
5000 cement bricks an hour. Experts be-
lieve that with few Improvements $4,000
bricks an hour can be turned out.
The plant of the Star Shovel and Range
Company at Vincennes, recently completed
at a cost of $780, 600, has closed indefinitely.
One hundred men are thrown out of en-
ployment. 1t is said the shutdown is due
to low markets produced by the combine.
The B. T. Bowen Publishing Company,
publishers of histories. who have offices in
Greenfield, have sent the Indiana writer.
Daniel Henderson, to Prince Edwards
island. Mr.. Henderson will spend con-
siderable time there in collecting material
preparatory to writing thorough and ex-
haustive history of the island.
Many cattle in Hamilton county are af-
flicted with consumption. A chemical test
of the milk from the cows has proved it to
be very impure, and il is likely that health
officers will order all of the animals killed
to keep the disease from spreading. The
state board of health has taken the matter
up and suggests that all the cattle which
have the slightest symptoms of the malady
be slaughtered.
Miss Mabel Bonsell of Thorntown, now
employed as teacher in the schools
Franklin, has been selected by a Yonkers,
On. u book publishing house, that has
the contract for printing school books for
the Philippines, to compile an arithmetic
for use in those islands. She has already
prepared part of the copy, which has been
accepted She taught school in the Phil
ippines for two years.
A drenching rain accompanied by
downfall of salt water crabs, was expert
enced in Hartford City. One crab, weigh
ing quarter of a pound was picked up in
the back yard of Charles Reed 1t is on
exhibition in an uptown show window.
Several smaller ones were found in an ad-
joining field. 1t is believed that the crabs
were carried inland by the clouds as the
result of a storm at sea.
The large stone crusher which the Monon
has been operating in its quarries at Paoli,
has ceased operations. The scarcity of
labor is said to be responsible for the shut
down, notwithstanding the fact tina. the
company recently raised wages. About
twenty men were thrown out of employ
ment, but the work will probably be re-
sumed again in November, when the busy
season for other labor is over.
A NJ. Scott, cashier of the defunct bank
of Ladoga, has turned over TO Capt. j. G.
Knox, receiver, his home in that place,
business block, wit interest IN water !,
works, notes of hand, stocks in mining a.
oil companies, building and loan, etc., al
gether aggregating $26,052.52. 1t is
Mr.. SCOTS purpose to leave Ladoga.
has secured permission to occupy his
home until the middle of September.
While Raymond Woodward and Able. =
Jones were making natural gas connec
ton with an egg incubator at Mr.. Wood
wards home at Lapel, escaping gas was
ignited by lamp. and both men were
painfully injured by the explosion follow
ing. Mr.. Woodward, whose weight is
nearly 200 pounds, was hurled like ball
through a window into the yard, carrying
away part of the sash and part of the win
dow frame. The explosion wrought havoc
to the incubator, and set fire to some cloth
ing in the rear.
The Indiana State Medical Association
will hold its annual meeting at West Baden
Springs, June z, and the National Associa-
ton of Nurserymen will meet there on the
same date. The Hon. A. j. Rhodes of
Paoli, will deliver the welcoming addres
to the nurserymen.
LaRue Taylor, employed in the Conley-
Birley table factory, Shelbyville, caught
his left hand in machine set for sz-inch
timber The roller pulled his hand in, and
the flesh was scraped from the bon IS clear
IN tho elbow before the machinery could Ia