The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-28
Brief State Items.

DTiCi ttcHfss
Jehu l.. Woodmansee. a prominent In
diana ~Spiritualist, died at Laporte, aged SO.
John Kastor of indianapolis, has sue
ceeded w. ii. Leonard of Indianapolis, as
a doorkeeper of the House.
TIL -four mills and grain elevators of j.
A. North & Son at Milton, burned. Loss
about $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The police raided several saloons at
Bedford for failure to remove lunch coun-
tiers from their places of business.
Robert Garrett of Liberty Center, was
accidentally shot in the abdomen while
rabbit hunting and may not recover.
Lee Hammond was acquitted at Bloom
field of the murder of George w. Stink.
The killing occurred about a month ago
near Linton.
The body of Oliver NJ. Mccormick, aged
81, a farmer living six miles south Of
Greensburg, was found hanging to a rafter
in his barn.
The board OF trustees of Jasper passed
an ordinance raising the liquor license
from $50 to $3.50 a year. The town has
fourteen saloons.
Charles Watkins of Frankfort, was seri-
ously burned by an explosion of gasoline.
He attempted to fill the gasoline tank
while the fire was burning.
The Elmhurst Sanatorium Company of
ConnerSyille, which a few months ago
made a voluntary assignment, has quit
business, and the institution is closed.
A local freight of the Big Four coIlided
with a cut of cars near Morris. Brake
man Charles BeyinS of CleveS, and Con-
ductor James King of West Point, were
killed.
Earl Gray, a bridge building superin-
tendent on the Big -Four railway, was ar
rested at Nashville for sending in fictitious
names to his employers and drawing
money in that way.
While playing with a rife Gladys Bell,
aged 10, of Terre Haute, accidentally shot
and Killed Maude Pryor, aged 5. Clifford
Bell brought the Pryor girl from Chicago
recently, intending to adopt her.
A Vandalia passenger train crashed into
the rear of a freight lain at LaketOn, seri-
ously injuring Jack Ryan, engineer of the
passenger train, one of whose legs was
broken. An open switch was at fault.
Albert Hoffman, aged 4, of Prairie City,
knocked down a shotgun, which discharged,
killing him. Many of the shot struck and
seriously injured a brother, who was sick
in bed with typhoid fever in the same room.
The jury in the case of John Wilson, a
lettering, feeble old man o. rs years, in
dicted for killing John Owen three years
ago, at Lybrant, accepted his plea of self
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Homer Smokes, aged 49,; Fred Dester, IL,
and Henry Revis, 19, members of an al
legged band of chicken thieves operating in
Miami county for a year, were arrested at
Peru, and confessed to stealing over 600
fowls.
The Shelby Rubber Company, recently
Incorporated, will erect a large factory at
Shelbyyille for the purpose of manufacture
ing a new automobile rubber tire. The
concern will, when put in operation, en-
ploy 100 men and fifty women.
While skating on Eel river at Logans-
port, Earl Rush and Glenn Jones were
drowned. Lawrence Jones, Clarence Ben
lea and Woodruff Grabs were rescued af-
ter they had chung to the edge of the
broken ice for nearly an hour.
William Thomas Morgan, who says he
was at one time worth 81 OO, 200, was sent
to the poorhouse at Evansville. His father
was a wealthy s%hipbuilder in Maine. Nor
gan is 81 years old. He says he lost his
fortune indorsing for relatives.
After having been operated successfully
for thirty years the Citizens Bank, a pri-
yate concern owned by James McCrea of
Wabash, was sold to the Wabash National
Bank. The Citizens Bank had a capital
stock of s36, 900 with $4,000 surplus and
$50, 900 deposits.
While walking along the tracks on their
way to the railroad station at Cottage
Grove, twenty miles west of COnnersyilie,
Mrs. John Pultz, AZ years old, and Jennie
Holland, IL years old, were run down by a
passenger train on the c., C.. & l.. railroad
and fatally injured.
JOnn III. Overfield, Al, foreman of the ce-
ment crew employed by the 4. Hicks Com
pany, engaged in building arches for the
new bridge of the Big Four Railway Com
pany at Danville. was struck by a crane
falling on his head, crushing his skull and
killing him instantly.
In memory of his late wife, Judge ID. d..
Dykeman has announced that he will erect
a SIS, 600 hospital in Logansport, which he
will furnish with an endowment of $780,
600. Judge Dykeman has asked the citi-
zens to asSst him in selecting a site upon
which to erect the building. The hospital
is to be known as the MARY Dykeman
Hospital"
The humane society of Lawrenceburg
has resolved to prosecute a farm hand who
is accused of an act of frightful cruelty to
animals. While in an intoxicated condi-
ton the man tied the tails of two horses
together with a stout strap. Then he
urged the animals to pull in. opposite di-
rections. They tugged so well and hard
that the tail of one of the horses was COM
pletely torn from its socket and the tail of
the other practically severed from its body.
The animals were the property of w. E.
Brunders of Jackson township, and were
valuable.
The saloon men of Marion held a meeting
for the purpose of enforcing the old blue
laws and closing every class of business OF
Sunday.
Andres Harris, a fisherman of Rockport,
shot and killed his 17-year-old son while
hunting, blowing off the boys head. He
mistook6he lad for a raccoon.
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