The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-07-20
Brief State Items.


own train.
Mrs. John L. Griffith of Oakland City,
while walking in her sleep, fell twenty
feet, breaking three ribs and sustaining in
ternal injuries.
Michael Neimier of Wanatah, while on
his way to visit his sick mother,w was struck
by train and killed. Hewas 80 years old
and leaves family.
Prof. Joseph Moore, former president of
inent educators in the central west, died at
his home in Richmond.
Charles Hummell, aged 10, made wager
he could dive across the lake on the
grounds of the Poor Infirmary at Evans
vile. He was drowned.
Thomas S. Hughes, 60, mail handler at
tie Union station at Indianapolis for sew
enteen years, was fatally injured at the
station and died at st. Vincent's hospital.
Clarence AXE, living mile east of Au-
rora, fell asleep on the track of the c., l..
4 A. line and was struck by car, which
decapitated him and cut Off his arms and
legs.
The Lake Erie & Western railroad sta
ton at Blaine was entered and consider
able groceries and hardware was carried
from the store in which the station is To-
Gated.
Frank Poll, Spaniard, was instantly
killed at the Western Flint Glass Works at
Eaton. Together with three other men,
Poll was unloading '!gin" pole which
fell, crushing his head.
Gus Hooker, porter at the French Lick
Springs hotel, shot and killed Allen Shell
bon. Hooker came to French Lick from
the Indiana springs In search of his wife
and fo1nd her with Sheldon.
Kid Whitney, who created sensation
wife of Rev. Mr.. Hinshaw of Laporte, for
which the husband served ten years, has
been paroled from Michigan City.
Albert Schneider of Evansville. returned
home after an absence of seven years. He
left home while still schoolboy, and his
parents had mourned him as dead. He has
been working in the western mines.
Harry Hall, aged 20, of Peru, was struck
by lightning and killed while seeking shell
ter under tree during heavy rainstorm.
He was member of party of six fisher
men, all of whom were shocked but not
seriously injured.
Mrs. Elizabeth johnson, 30 years old,
woman who lived in the country south of
Muncie, is dead as the result of swallowing
a pin six weeks ago. She eventually had
the pin removed, but the wound made by
it was so painful that it caused her death.
The strike of the inside electrical work.
ers of Indianapolis, begun several months
ago, has come to an end and the men have
gone back to work. No concessions were
made by the employers and the men are
working under the same conditions prac-
dcally as before they struck.
B. d. Kellar, roadmaster of the White
water branch of the Big Four railway, who
lives in Cambridge City, was killed just
west of Boundary Hill. near BrOokvllle, by
freight train. He was going west on his
bicycle and failed to notice the approach
ing train. He was an important railway
official on the Big Four system.
G. B. Norris, druggist, of Frankfort, re-
ceived the following unsigned letter, which
was mailed at Upton and dated July s:
"Thou shalt make restitution. Accept in
closed forty cents due you and forgive as
He forgave them. A Upton Holiness
church member" The writer asks that
the receipt of the forty cents be acknowl-
edged through one of the local papers.
A rowboat containing mans cap, let
ter addressed to Mrs. William Theron, FIRE.
mont, Ohio, grocery book belonging to
William Theron, a union card bearing
Theron's name and other articles, was
found four miles west of Michigan City.
The boat belongs to local fisherman. The
letter substantiates the supposition that the
man Theron committed suicide by drown
ing himself off that port. In the letter
Theron babe goodbye to his wife and
children.
One of the largest wheat crops ever
threshed in Posey county was that Of
William Oeth, in Mars township. He
had in thirty-three acres which averaged
thirty-fye bushels to the acre. This is re-
garded as an unusually large average in
Posey county. The corn crop is looking
exceptionally well and the indications are
that Posey county will raise one of the
largest corn crops in its history. Probably
300, 900 to 100000 bushels of wheat and
| zoo, 900 bushels of corn will be the crop
yields.
Drs. w. H. Kennedy and Frank Camp
bell have performed the operation of skin
grating on Mrs. William Hardy of Gowdy,
Rush county, using forty-one pieces of
skin taken from three frogs. The woman
was carrying boiler filled with hot water
| on April last, and she fell. Her right
shoulder and her arm were frightfully
scalded. She was brought to the hospital
at Shelbyville month ago. 1t is the first
time frog skin was ever used in that city
for skin-grafting purposes. The woman
will recover.
Matthew Jones, aged 10, William Dish
ong and Adam Conrad, residents of Kings
land or vicinity, were arrested and brought
to Huntington to answer to charges of
stealing barrel of meat on March / from
Chicago & Erie car, which was standing
on side track near Markle.
"Hell can be no worse than in this world.
/ have received nothing but knocks and
abuse all my life. l have wasted my whole
life" After penning this note John Leahy,
young man of Rensselaer,, lay down in
| the court house yard and drank carbolie
acid. Several hours afterward the body
was found.
| Walter Mum shot and killed William
Cope in j. A. Hughes saloon at Litch-
| field. No cause is assigned for the murder
save the intoxicated condition of the prin-
cipals. Mum and his brother escaped