The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-03-02


damages from the Pennsylvania Railway
Company.
is. Rizor, elected from Logansport and
Wabash Valley traction car because of an
alleged worthless ticket, and who sued for
81, 900 damages, has been awarded d verdict
for one cent.
Edward Boiling of indianapolis, fireman
on the Michigan division of the Big -Four
railway, was struck by large piece of coal,
which fell from the tender, and was rend-
cred unconscious.
The contract has been let for the erection
of bank building for the American Trust
and Savings Company of Evansville, of
which Edward o. Hopkins is president.
The new building will cost $4,000.
Miss Rose CoOns, young lady living at
Wingate, was burned to death in a gasoline
explosion. In filling gasoline lamp she
did not take the precaution to extinguish
the wick and in the explosion she was en-
yeloped in the blazing fluid.
While attempting to remove feather bed
from his buEning house, Bert Kocher of
Columbus, ran his hand through a broken
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his lefthand. The amputatiOn of two fingers
may be necessary. The house was full of
smoke and Kocher thought the window was
open. The damage to the house was slight,
the fire being extinguished with chemicals.
The Elks Lodge of Brazil, which has
fathered several movements for the benefit
and progress of the city, has formed among
its members an association to be known as
the Elks' Commercial Club. Officers will
be elected and arrangements made to push
the industrial welfare of Brazil in all pos
sible ways. The chief object of the associa-
tion is to obtain new factories for that city.
The association has a membership of $50.
Elizabethtown has a novel plan for city
hall. The need of public hall has been
felt therefor some time and now the citi-
zens have taken the matter up. Shares of
$40 each and to the amount CT $1,000 have
been put on the market, and 1T is expected
that all the stock will with little trouble be
subscribed. The hall will then be started
and will be used by the townspeOple for all
purposes.
Fred Smith, age IL years, of Bedford, was
instantly killed at the Southern Indiana
roundhouse. He, with a helper, was
engaged in cleaning out an ash pit
from which an engine had just left, when
another engine r0shed in unknown TO them
until too late to escape. His partner
dropped to the floor of the pit, but young
Smith is supposed to have attempted to
crawl out and was caught about the center
of the body. cuttirg him entirely in two.
Walter Kendall, age IL, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. +. Kendall, had miraculous es-
cape from being killed by the incoming
Madison branch passenger train at Column
bus. The tracks pass the Kendall house,
which is butt short distance from a passen-
ger station, and young Kendall tried to
board the train for a short ride. He slipped
on the ice and fell under the train. He
held to the guard rails, however, and
swung himself out of the way. A wrenched
shoulder was his only injury.
John c. Zulauf, president of the Citi-
zens' National Bank of Jeffersonville, has
offered to the directors of the Home for the
Aged, which has recently been inc0rpor-
ated, fine house for their purpose on con-
dition that they raise $1,000 for repairs and
upkeep. He made an alternate offer of
81, 900 In cash if they did not take the house.
Citizens have promised insurance, coal and
physicians bill for the cause and more
than 81 900 is already in sight for the project.
Fifty girls employed in Campbell's steam
laundry at IOgansport were thrown into
panic by the breaking of an elevator.
Four girls who were in the elevator
when it fell were seriously Injured. They
are Ida Cochran, Edna Boeckleman, Mabel
Paul and Emma Plaff. They had started
to descend from the third floor, when the
wire cable snapped. Miss Cochran is in a
critical condition because of injury to her
spine. Miss Boeckleman is injured intern
ally. The other two girls on the elevator
suffered broken ankles.
Hearing that her home in Chicago had
been destroyed by fire, Mrs. Frank Peyser,
81 years old, wife of the credit manager for
Chicago firm of diamond merchants, COM
mitted suicide at the home OF her father,
Silas Shoup, near Goshen, by blowing of
the top of her head with shotgun.
Edward Keppler of Crumstown, died OF
burns, caused by using gasoline instead Of
coal oil, in starting fire, preparatory to
breakfast. While enveloped in flames he
jumped through window and otherwise
injured himself. His wife was also SER
iously wounded by burns, as well as injur-
les received from similar jump.
| By the explosion of the pipes in the
water back of the kitchen ringe at the
home of Alonzo Kelly at New Albany,
Mr.. Kelly sustained broken leg and other
| injuries. Miss Lorena Hubbard, domes-
tic, was badly injured, the coal range was
demolished, and the kitchen was badly
damaged.
Joseph Dupree, an Indiana veteran who
Is an inmate of the White County cottage al
the Indiana soldiers home, near Lafay-
cite, has made an enviable record this
winter in trapping 'possums. He has ten
long marks on the casing of the cottage
door, and the season is not yet over. The
game is taken in the grounds adjoining the
| buildings.