The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-12
Brief State Items.

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eldest town in the county.
The G. A. r. post Of Clinton, has 81 1000
in the monument fund, and is taking active
steps TO secure a soldiers monument.
Charles H. Reeves, aged SO, well known
as a writer ON social and economic ques-
tons, is dead at his home in Plymouth.
George w. Gunder of Wabash, has been
elected grand commander, Knights of Mac
cabees, with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. Frank Fur of Hillsboro, swallowed
sulphite of zinc, installing it for epson
salts, and narrowly escaped with her life.
Mrs. A. j. Wolfe, one of the best-known
and most influential women of Waveland,
slipped and fell, breaking her leg in two
places.
Glenn Reese, age Is years, of Laurel,
while playing with companions, fell
through a box and broke both bones of his
left arm.
Joseph Ray Byrum, while working in a
factory at Shelbyville, stepped on a splin-
ter which penetrated his shoe and entered
the foot. Lockjow developed and death
IN
William lotion, a member of the Ma
honal Military Home at Marion, took a
dose of laudanum, thinking it was medi-
cine, and physicians with difficulty saved
his life.
~DespOndent over i'll health, Mrs. Harry
Haugh, aged SO, prominent in society at
Anderson, committed suicide with carbOlic
acid. She was a sister of DR.. Charles Clay
ton of Indianapolis.
Councilman Parks of Jacksonville, is
framing a plan whereby a municipal tax
can be placed upon every kind of business
in the city, the object being to raise funds
for the payment of accumulated city orders.
Larwell Severns, 10 years old, was acct
~1entally shot in the left groin at Muncie,
while hunting, a dog jumping against a
gun carried by John Terrence and causing
its discharge. Larwell is the son of DR.. ID.
5. Severns.
Mrs. Emily Pritchett, the aged mother of
Howard Walker, near Grafton, while alone
ut her sons house, fell on a hot stove,
setting her clothing on Ere, and she was
hopelessly burned before her condition
was discovered.
The Rev. Julius E. Schwarz, pastor of
the First German Presbyterian Church of
Connersville. is considering an invitation
to become a member of the board of mis-
sions of the church, with its headquarters
at Milwaukee, Wis.
Lieut.. Victor S. Jackson, stationed in
Washington, is visiting his home in Peru.
He has been transferred from the Navy
Department to the Panama commission
and will have charge of the stores and ma
terial, both on land and aflOat.
Five valuable cows belonging to James
III. Lindley, near Lost River, ventured on
the ice in their eagerness fer water, and,
the ice giving way under their combined
weight, two of them were drowned. The
others were saved with difficulty.
Andrew Carnegie has agreed to give
$4,000 toward a library building at Roch-
ester, provided the city council provides a
maintenance fund of $1,000 annually aud
furnishes a site. The city council made
haste to comply with conditions.
While Mrs. Minnie Seiple was sitting in
tlhC OnlOn CtdllOl at lnullC1C. IWO DOl ;
snatched her purse, which she was holding
in her hand, and escaped before they could
be apprehended. The pocketbook con-
tanned only a small sum of money.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Piper, who came to
Hancock from Tennessee, in 1919, and who
are SO and IS years old, respectively, are
alarmingly ill at their beautiful home neal
Mo vvval1 II 10 fhofr hnaCt that fhox- ,,avo,
rode on a railroad train MOI ON a street car
Lewis Carr, who has been living in q
tent since last summer, to ward off tuber-
culosis, narrowly escaped cremation at Co.
lumbus. The tent caught FIRE, and as Carr
is scarcely able to walk, it would have beer
consumed over him had not help arrived
County Clerk McClung of Laporte Coun-
ty, has found that no returns have beer
made to his Office of forty-seven marriage
licenses issued between June 1, 1900, anC
June L, 1908, and according to the Laportt
Herald o of these couples can claim lie,
gal marriages.
Gen. Edwin r.. Niles of Goshen, aged II
who a few weeks ago escaped from Lons
Cliff Asylum, and after a long search wa.
captured in Milwaukee, where he ha(
walked, died at the asylum. Genera
Niles, while fighting with the 'sBloody
Ninth Indiana Regiment in the civil war
was hit by a ann ball. For over fort,
years his Dlind had been partially wrecked
William j.. Morgan, near Mooresville
owns a golden eagle w,lich measures sever
and one-half feet from tip to tip. The birt
is on exhibition at the poultry show. Mr.
Morgan captured the eagle four years ago
crippling its wings with a shot, and h
keeps it in a huge wire cage in his door
yard. The bird is very fierce, and it will
tear a rat. a rabbit or a chicken to piece
in an instant. One of Mr.. Morgan's ia
vOrite house cats yentured into the Gag
j one day to nibble at a rabbit which tn
eagle was eating, and in a second the ca
was torn to pieces.
The building of one of the most beauti
full churches in the northern part of Indi
ana will Don be started in Peru by tn
congregation of the First Presbyterian
Church. The new building will cos
$4,000. Its exterior walls will be con
structed of rough faced stone, excepting
the window frames, which will be Q
dressed stone. The interior walls will b
hard plastered and frescoed. The from
part of the church will contain the sane
tuary, while the rear part will be occupie
by the Sunday School. The building Wi
have a seating capacity for LOO persons
Rev. Henry Nyce is the pastor.
Mrs. Sarah Bright, a county infirmar