The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-05-11
Brief State Items.

The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
ticket Office at Mt. Vernon, was robbed of
$40. Suspicion points to local talent.
On order of Mayor Charles G. Covert 500
money slot machines were removed from
the saloons and billiard halls of Evansville.
The old ST. Clair homestead, now the
property of William st. Clair, near Henry
vile, was destroyed by fire with loss of
81 ,2Cc.
The law is being enforced against duck
hunteS at Williamsport, one man being
fined twenty dollars for killing duck and
two mud hens.
Mrs. John Costanden, caught her CLOTH
ing on fire in her home at Muncie, and ran
to neighbor, who saved her life. She was
seriously burned, however.
The cases of Ernest Sanderson and Otto
Cook, charged with the murder of Preston
Sanderson at Bluffton, were continued
until the September term of court.
There is ginseng farm in Whitley
county, near Shriner lake, where 10000
plants are growing. 1t is said that $4,000
are sometimes realized from one acre of
ginseng.
Mrs. j. J. Bowman, wife of an Elkhart
county farmer, has been arrested for arson.
1t is alleged that she set fire to the home of
a family quarrel.
Charles NJ. Roser, night Waterman at the
knitting mills, and Charles Henry, gen.
eral store-keeper at Fort Wayne, were
bound over to the Federal jury for hand
ling lottery tickets.
The 1S-months-old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Owen Short of Kokomo, overturned can
filled with I've sitting on table, and the
sight of the right eye was destroyed, while
the otter was badly damaged.
James Lillis, employed in the Pease
foundries at Hegewisch, was caught by a
belt and whipped up to the shafting, where
he was wound round and round. His
thigh and several ribs were broken.
Maggie Oser, years old, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Nick Oser of BateSville, attempted
to Chamber on the steps of the Oldenburg
hack and was thrown under it, crushing
her skull. She died in few minutes.
Jesse Coonce, buyer for st. Vincent's
Catholic Orphan Asylum, east of Vim
cenneS, was sent to town with 5000 and
neither CoOnce nor the money have been
accounted for 1t is feared he met with
foul play.
The retail dry goods store of Ziesel Bros.
at Elkh2rt, was entered by thieves and
81 500 worth of silk was stolen. That the
robbers were experts is proved by the ease
with which they selected only the finest
grade of goods.
Winburn f. Conrad Of indianapolis, says
he has invented machine to revolutionize
the brick-making industry. 1t turns out
5000 cement bricks an hour. Experts be-
lieve that with few improvements $4,000
bricks an hour can be turned out.
Grant Rhodes, who stabbed Joseph
Kemple, in an alteration at Paoli few
weeks ago, and who was afterward ordered
arrested b. his bondsmen and placed in
Jail. has been released. His father and
mother made good his bond in $1,000.
The plant of the Star Shovel and Range
Company at Vincennes, recently completed
at cost of 100000, has closed indefinitely.
One hundred men are thrown out of en-
ployment. 1t is said the shutdown is due
to low markets produced by the combine.
The body of James Turner, who disap-
peared from home in South Bend several
| weeks ago, was found in the river. A
woman saw it go over the dam and notified
the police. Turner was rs years old and
well known. The manner of his death is
unknown.
Van Buren, township and town has gone
''dry" on remonstrance under the Moore
law. The township polled 900 votes in the
last election, and 600 voters have signed a
remonstrance before the Grant county
commissioners. Eight saloons will go out
of business, if the remonstrance is sus-
| tanned.
A general order has been issued from
the headquarters of the Department Of the
Grand Army of the Republic of Indiana
stating that the date of the annual parade
OF veterans has been changed from June Il
| to the following day in order that Governor
Hanley may participate. The annual en-
campment will be held at Madison the
week of June II.
Ellis Bryan of Lafayette, who fought in
the Spanish-American war, while sailing
ON the Wabash river, was drowned, his
boat 0verturning while making a tack He
| landed his brother ashore just before being
capsized and the latter witnessed his
drowning, unable to render assistance.
The body was recovered near where the
unfortunate man went down.
| While Raymond Woodward and Albert
Jones were making natural gas connec-
ton with an egg incubator at Mr.. Wood
wards home at Lapel, escaping gas was
ignited by lamp, and both men were
painfully injured by the explosion follow
/ ing. Mr.. Woodward, whose weight is
nearly 200 pounds, was hurled like ball
through window into the yard, carrying
away part of the sash and part of the win
dow frame. The explosion wrought havoc
to the incubator, and set fire to some cloth
ing in the rear.
The Indiana State Medical Association
will hold its annual meeting at West Baden
Springs, June Z, and the National Associa-
| ton of Nurserymen will meet there on the
same date. The Hon. A. j. Rhodes OF
Paoli, will deliver the welcoming address
to the nurserymen.
The B. F. Bowen Publishing Company
publishers of histories, who have Offices in
Greenfield, have sent the Indiana writer
| Daniel Henderson, to Prince Edwards
island. Mr.. Henderson will spend con-
siderable time there in collecting material
preparatory to writing thorough and ex-
haustiye history of the island.