The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-09-07
Brief State Items.

lumber.
The f-year-old child of Mrs. Warren
Gardner of Elkhart fell from the second
story window and was fatally injured.
Lightning caused a fire that destroyed
the grocery and dry goods house Of Il. j..
Holmes at Jacksonville. Loss, $1,000.
Two men were injured and eleven cars
dItched in wreck in the c., G. & J.. bridge
over the Tippecanoe river near Winamac.
The Kokomo Steel and Iron Works,
which was damaged by storm six weeks
ago, resumed operations, employing 600
men.
The general store of Frank Kershner at
Murray, five miles north of BlufftOn, was
burned to the grouSd, entailing loss Of
$1,000.
Mrs. Alice Burleigh was fatally injured
10y Vandalia freight train at Martinsville.
She attempted TO cross the track and was
struck.
A. :. Wilkins and wife, of Hammond,
were perhaps fatally burned by an explO-
sion of gas in the kitchen stove due to an
imperfect meter
The iron moulders' strike at Roots foun-
dry in Connorsyille, which continued for a
week, has been settled and the plant is in
full operation again.
While in bathing in the Wabash river,
near the Brownville bridge, Thomas p.
Smith, 10 years old, of Frankfort, was
drowned. The body was recovered.
City Treasurer Jacob has been nOnin-
ated by the republicans at New Albany IS
their candidate for mayor. defeating former
Mayor Frank Schrader by IA votes at the
primary.
The desire of Samuel Berger of South
BenGt0 show fellow wOrkmen how strong
he was, resulted in his death. Berger lifted
a heavy box and Immediately fell to tie
floor dead
George b. Van Sweringen, retired civil
engineer and civil war veteran, fell from
third-story window in the Nordyke hotel
at Andrews, and received injuries from
which he died
Frank Saherneck of Hobart, while
wrestling with neighbor fell under the
mans knee, which struck him in the stom-
ach, causing his death in a short time. He
was 80 years Old.
The miners and day labOrers employed
| at the Big Muddy mine at Bicknell, have
come out on strike. 1t is asserted that the
| mine is in danger us condition and the
men have refused to work.
A j. Coffman, we'll known merchant
| of Richmond, was struck by a Dayton ~
! Western traction car east of that city while
driving across the track and received in
ir,riac ,-hich may ,.roxrn fatal
Jesse Sterrett, aged %, of Nashville,
wanted in Greensburg for alleged forgery
and board bill jumping, was arrested at
| Edwardsville, H., and was taken 10
Greensburg to answer the charge.
A scaffold. on which six bricklayers were
at work on the new Masonic Temple at
Rushville, fel! twelve feet, but the work
men were not seriously hurt. Jawes DAN
iels was badly bruised about the head and
shoulders.
The blacksmith and boiler departments
of the Louisville and Nashville shops at
Howell, two miles from Evansville, were
| destroyed by fire, the flames starting from
an electric wire. Loss about $4,000, COW
cred by insurance.
James Andersen, pearl hunter, found
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pearl in the Wabash river at Clinton.
which he claims is worth $500. He has
refused an offer of $500. The pearl is as
large as cherry of beautiful lustre, and
weighs fifty-three grains.
During quarrel at Vincennes over a
piece of watermelon, Everett Collins, Is
years old, was stabbed with dirk welded
by Albert Parr, cut in the shoulder, eight
inches in length, being the Seyerest wound,
although he was slashed in the stomach
and chest. PART escaped arrest by fight.
While driving along the road east of
Boonville, James Grandstaff and Asa Ba-
con, two farmers, were attacked by
swarm of bees and fatally stung. When
they were found lying by the roadside both
were unconscious and one of the horses
was dead. Neither is expected to recover.
Announcement is made that the German
American National Alliance will meet in
Indianapolis October 4 to Z. The National
German American Alliance consists of the
union of all German national political So
cieties in the United States. The Organi-
cation is divided into state and local bodies,
and its membership at present is 100000,
embracing all states.
Joshua f. Zenor, a well-to-do farmer of
Posey township, Harrison county, shot and
seriously wounded his neighbor, Levi
Farnsley, Zenor finding Farnsley at work
in a field and using his weapon. There is
| bad hood between them. Zenor is defen-
dant in SANDER suit recently filed by
Shirley Harris, in which the plaintiff COM
plains of having been accused of theft.
The prompt arrival of policemen averted
panic and saved several lives al one of
| the Washington street retail stores in In
dianapolis. A bargain advertisement
brought 1000 women to the sto.., and in
the crush some of them tainted. They de-
molished some counters. and the police had
to clear the store so the men could repair
it, An hour later the store opened again.
John Cook, Thomas Wallace, Thomas
Brown and Abe Young, being held at
Princeton for c0mplicityin the riot at Oak
| land City, escaped from the deputy sheriff
| and are at liberty. All of those injured in
the riot will recover. A number of ad-
difional warrants have been issued.
William Purdy, "a years of age, of Brad
ford Junction, O.. a detective for the Penn
| sylvania railroad, was fatally wounded at
Redkey, in controversy between the con-
struction crews of the Panhandle railroad
and the Muncie x Portland Traction Com
pany, which arose over the installation of
| crossing