The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-07
Brief State Items.

bing lock boxes in the postofice at Wash
ington.
The postofice at Parker City was broken
into and 500 taken. There is no clew to
the robbers.
Bedford has a milk famine. Many cows
are yielding less than half the usual guam
tity of milk.
A coal shaft has been sunk at StendaI,
Pike county, to a depth of 10 feet, where
an eight-fOot vein of fine coal was found.
Thieves looted the jewelry establishment
of Mrs. 5. K. Anderson at Bedford, taking
over 5000 worth of holiday jewelry. No
clew.
Mrs. Robert Alley, residing two miles
south of Bloomington, cut her throat, al
most severing the windpipe. She cannot
| recover.
The printing Office of Samuel b. Will
Hanson at Hoagland, was burned and the
fire caused a total loss to building and
contents.
Fire caused damage estimated at s., 500 in
the plant of the Journal Printing Company
at Charlottesville. The loss is covered by
insurance.
John Cribs, 81 years old, employed at
the VigO mine, near Seelyville, was killed
by falling from the cage in an unaccOunt- .
able manner
James b. Nealy, % years old. a machin-
list, stepped on a live wire while passing
through an alley at Terre Haute and was
instantly killed.
Harry G.. Slingluff of Hartford City, a
well known glass manufacturer, was pain
fully injured in a runaway accident while
exercising his race horse.
The burning of Ackers' sawmill at BOur-
bon, resulted in a loss of 5000. The mill
will not be rebuilt. 1t was the fifth plant
constructed OF the same site.
In an explosion of gas in the United
States Gas Factory at Gas City, seven men
were seriously but not fatally burned. The
cause OF the explosion is unknown.
Archie Griffin, formerly of Bluffton, died
from yellow fever at Atkins. Ark. He
had been in the west less than a month
and was on pleasure bent, hunting and
fishing.
Mary Pingel, Y years old, was instantly
killed by THE fast Chicago train at Denham,
seven miles north of Winamac, her body
being thrown a hundred feet, and every
bone broken.
Carl Osborne, is, of Marshall. was killed
while making a tackle in a football game
at Bellemora. He was struck in the breast,
breaking two ribs. Osborne was a high
school student.
Former State Senator d. W. II. Nus
baum and his son., DR.. Joy Nusbaum, for
merly Of Auburn, have gone to Las Vegas,
n. NJ, where they will engage in the prac-
tice OF their pr fession.
Archie Freeman was shot at New AL
bany by William Tayler, during a quarrel
over TaylOr's wife. Taylor surrendered
to the police. Freeman's injuries are not
fatal. Both men are cOlOred.
SCHUYLER Crofoot. one of the wealthiest
farmers in st. Joseph county, while blast
ing stumps, was caught by a premature
discharge, tearing off n hand, splitting
his face and inflicting other injuries.
Harry Wolf, 16 years of age, the son OF
Conductor Charles Wolf. formerly a resi-
! dent of Fort Wayne, was instantly killed
in the yards of the Baltimore d Ohio rail-
road at Garrett. His body was badly
mangled.
Christopher C. Cronkhite and son, Bur-
ton, prominent physicians of Marion, have
been declared insane and are being held
preparatory TO being sent to an asylum.
Opium Is said to be the cause of their
downfall.
Frank Dettner, 81, of 1916 Broadway.
Cincinnati, fell from the b. & o. S.-W-
bridge that spans the Miami at Lawrence
burg, in trying to avoid a train. He re-
ceived internal injuries and his right leg
was broken.
The home of Mrs. Ellen Reaves, widow,
near the National Military Home. Marion,
was destroyed by fire. Frances Reayes, II
years old, rescued her 7-year-old sister as
the roof fell in. The family saved nothing,
and 1000 pounds of -four and $500 in cash
were included in the loss.
Lawrence Hubbard, indicted for killing
Nelson Jordan, was acquitted by a jury in
the Circuit Court at Jeffersonyille. The
killing took place on the 10Th of May, 1904,
at a schoolhouse in the French settlement,
west of ~Jeffersonville, following a fight at
an entertainment. Self-defense was the
plea.
A fight between a savage boar and two
fine horses on the farm of M. ID. Lille
\ bridge, northwest of Hartford City, resulted
In the death of one horse, and probably "a
tai injuries to another. The horses used
their hoofs on the boar, and the latter
ripped the flesh of the legs of the horses
with its tusks. The horses were valued at
$3.50.
Judge Vaughn of Button, has issued a
bench warrant for the arrest Of John w.
Terrell, charged with the murder Of his
son-in-law, Melvin Wolfe, May II, 1905,
and the warrant has been placed in the
hands of the sheriff of Wayne county, to
be issued the moment Terrell is discharged
from the hospital as cured, if that time
should ever come.
The home of Nicholas Dorset, farmer, six
miles north of Clinton, burned and a 10
months-old daughter was cremated. Mrs.
Dorset was absent from the house, and
while she was gone the heating stove fell
to the floor, setting the interior OF fire, and
before the mother returned the house was
a mass Of flames. There was no insurance
on the house nor contents.
F.>S. Henrichs of Evansville, of the
brokerage firm If Henrichs & Co, was ar
rested at South Bend on the charge thar
he is using blind advertising in thirty. pa
pers to deffaud people. Henrichs' Father