The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-06-08
Brief State Items.

been subscribed.
Mrs. Jennie Poole Of Danville, the white
wife of a negro mirer, was struck by an
interurban car and killed.
Thomas Ryan, for several years tyler OF
the Elks' lodge in South Bend. swallowed
carbolic acid, dying soon afterward
Christian Knoop, aged 81, wealthy citi-
zen of Evansville, while in tree picking
cherries, fell and sustained probably fatal
injuries.
The body of Nathaniel Warren was
found along the Panhandle tracks at Glib
hardt. He was 80 years old and lived al
Crown Point.
Nervous disorder of the eyes has resulted
in total blindness for William +. Merrick
business man of Anderson, and he has
retired from active life.
Mrs. E. NJ. Arvin, until recently a we'll
known woman of Evansville, brought suit
against her husband for divorce at Hen
derson, KY, alleging that he is IAN avowed
| infidel."
As he stepped from Big Four track to
avoid an approaching freight train, Her.
man g. Steigerwalt, aged 81, of Lawrence
| burg, was decapitated by passenger train
| on the other track.
The National Bridge Company of In
concrete bridge in the world at Peru. The
bridge is to span the Wabash river and is
to be 700 feet long.
During fire in Eastwood's market, al
! South Bend, $1,000 damage was done
while the family of Patrolman Vanlako
was rescued from death by ladders stretched
| to the upper windows.
! While playing on the Louisville & Nash
! vile railroad bridge that crosses the Ohio
river ten miles below Evansville, Ernest
Voolfolk, age s years, was struck by a
passenger train and killed.
John Busker, 65 years old, herb doctor
who lived the life of hermit in a cabin
near Evansville. was struck by a passenge-
tram on the Louisville, Henderson d st
Louis railway, and instantly killed.
| During William j. Bryan's visit at Gu
yer, it is said that he arranged for his son
now in the Nebraska University, to enter
the Culver Military Institute. and he will
begin his academic course next fall.
The slaughter house owned by G.. B
Slagle & Son of Churubusco, caught fire
! from some unknown cause and burned
down, entailing loss of $500. Several
dressed beeves and hogs were destroyed
The Ford q Donnely factory and ma
chine works of Kokomo, were destroyed by
fire. The flames started in the boiler-roon
and spread to other parts of the factory
| The loss will amount to 10000, covered by
insurance.
A young man about % years old wa:
/ struck by the Pennsylvania Limited mil,
west of Fort Wayne and instantly killed
A memorandum book IN his pocket bore
the name of Willie Reichart, address Wilt.
shire, Ohio.
Cyrus b. Jackman, aged 90, who died re-
Gently at his late home in Angola, wa,
probably the largest man i'm the state. IL
weight was 512 pounds, and his casket was
twenty-four inches deep and forty-twt
inches wide.
Melville Lockyear of Evansville, is ar
ranging to build ten-story office building
in that city. The new structure will be il
Main street, and will cost $200,000. OF thi
sum $l45,O0O has been subscribed by CAPT
talists in Chicago.
Miss Mo:.e McVeda of Kokomo, VIII,
was born without nose, and all her lif,
had lived comparatively secluded. S,
keenly did she feel her Disagreement, tina
she attempted suicide. first by shooting
and afterwards by cutting her throat, fail
in both efforts.
James Ellison, rich and respected
bachelor of Blue Creek township, is wanted
by the officers at Decatur on most serious
charge, according to an affidavit filed in tn,
Adams Circuit Court and signed byWillian
I. Baker. The affidavit charges Ellison
with criminal assault on the 5-year-ol(
child of Baker.
The body of John Kellar, a wealth,
German farmer residing at Kellarville, wa
found in the woods hanging by the neck
He had been dead several days wher
found. Kellar was 20 years of age. III,
divided his property among his children ;
short time ago. He became morose ant
imagined that he was being mistreated.
While playing around his fathers fec
mill, Ward Robertson, the 10-year-old sol
of Libby Robertson of Browstown, wa
caught on a line shaft and fatally injured
One leg, one arm and the chest bone wer,
broken, and he was otherwise cut ans
bruised. The mill had just been startes
and the shaftwas moving slowly, Otherwis,
the boy would have been instantl,
killed.
One of the oldest dams in the st. 10,
river, used for more than seventy years TO
power to operate Touring mill, went on
at Spencerville, and now the village il
minus power to operate its only industry
that of the Murray Bros. Touring mill. Tn,
dam was relic of pioneer days along thu
st. Joe and was constructed more thai
seventy years ago. 1t had been frequently
repaired but the immense downpour o
rain for the past two weeks was more thar
it could stand and the collapse came as M
little surprise to the villagers. The dan
was 175 feet long and fifteen feet high.
i A large parrot owned by A. E. Stokes o
Evansville. discovered fire in three sta
bles, and for while the pretticst portion
of the city was threatened with destruction
The parrot saw the flames and kept yelling
sMamma, Mamma" at the top of his yoic
until the family turned in the fire alarm.
A lad ATTEMPTED tc walk a narrow planl
spanning the Strauss millrace, just allow
the big power mill at North Manchester
but lost his footing and fell into the swift
current. Harry Mentzner of Wabash, saw