The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-06-01
Brief State Items.


near Arlington. burned to the ground
Loss, $1,000.
Tire destroyed the Douselman flour and
saw mills at Cross Plains, south of Ben
ham. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
The shortage of Daniel Petro. the miss
ing clerk treasurer of Cambridge City, is
now fixed at s., 1875, less than first supposed.
After waiting until the family left the
house to attend funeral, thief entered
the home of John b. Carr at CharleStown,
and stole 470 silver dimes.
Roy Keller, II years old, was thrown
from dirt cart in the yards of the Frank
fort Brick Company, and, falling under the
cart. had both legs broken above the knees.
Mrs. Harriet Packard, % years, widow
of Hon. Jasper Packard, former congress-
man and newspaper man, died at New
Albany from injuries received in a fau last
winter.
Frank Patterson, an employe of a local
abbatoir at Evansville, fell from ladder
in a cold storage plant and lay in the frigid
atmosphere for two hours. 1t is thought
he will die.
Oriz Foster, aged IL, hired as stake Off
boy at the Vincennes paper mill had only
been at work an hour when both his hands
were mashed off by a roller. He may die
from loss of blood.
John Knapp, indicted for the murder Of
Marshal Gesler of Hagerstown, win face
the court and jury on September IL, the
date for the trial having been set in the
Wayne Circuit Court.
Laura Ethel Carter Miller, % years old,
committed suicide at Elkhart. by swallow
ing carbolic acid, disappointment in love
being the ascribed cause. Her former
home was in KendallvilIe.
Paul johnson of New Durham township,
while shunting cars for the l.. S. & M. s.
railway at Wall, Jay county, fell under
the wheels, losing his right leg at the knee
and his right arm at the shoulder.
While William Elliott, well-known
resident of Butlerville, was driving to
Vernon, accompanied by his two daugh-
! tiers, Mr.. Elliott and one af his daughters
were thrown out in runaway accident
and badly hurt.
Citizens of Elwood are discussing the
advisability of petitioning the courts to
permit the surrender of the city charter,
and return to an incorporated town,
thereby doing away with the Metropolitan
police system and other expenses, which
have tendency to increase taxation.
The jury in the case of Edward Dennis,
colored, for killing David Braxton in Vig0
county last December, brought to Rock
Vile on change of venue, returned YER
dict finding the defendant guilty of man.
slaughter. He was remanded to prison
under the indeterninate sentence act.
During a collision of republican ward
workers at Terre Haute, in which ''Slim"
Rice, George BranSon and others were in
-olved, Branson was stabbed in the face
and severely injured, the knife blade
breaking Off in the wound. Other mem
bers of the rival factions were also hurt.
William Br0ehman was found lying be-
side the right-of-way of the Baltimore 81
Ohio railway, near Lapaz, with both legs
cut off. He was brought to South Bend,
where he died. He asserted that he was
! pushed off the train by tramps while en-
route for his home at Youngstown, Ohio.
The 5-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
| Abort of Anderson, complaining of his
right ear, was placed under physicians
care, and after several examinations, to
disclose the cause of trouble, the physician
finally discovered a peanut kernel, which
had sprOuted and was apparently taking
on strong growth. After its removal the
child ceased to suffer.
Ortis Martelle, an employee at the Amer
1 We r,lo in,
Hartford City, had his nose entirely severed
from his face by peculiar accident. A
workman carrying a large cylinder Of win
dow glass on his shoulder collided with
him, striking him i'm the face. His pro-
boscis was completely cut off. He picked
| it up, put it back in place and hurried to a
physician.
While Jasper Richey, deputy sheriff,
and William McDougal, policeman, were
returning to Shelbyville, after an official
visit to the country, an automobile, driven
by Thomas Beggs of Terre Haute, came up
at rapid speed. Their horse became I'M
manageable, and this caused a collision,
both officers being thrown down an en-
bankment and severely bruised. One OF
the buggy wheels was torn off.
At a meeting of the Elks' Commercial
| Club at Brazil, it was decided to establish
fund for the purpose of inducing new
factories to come to that city. 1t was de-
cided to purchase a tract of land adjoining
the city, plat it into town lots and erect
| 81, 900 residence ON one of the lots. The
remainder of the lots will be sold at 500
each and every purchaser to receive a
chance on the house already constructed.
The watermelon growers of Knox county
are troubled over the operations of small
yellow bug on newly planted watermelon
seed. Although some growers say the
prospect for good crop is as good as in
previous years, reports from over the
county are not as favorable. Many of the
growers have plowed up their first sowing
| and have placed new seed in the ground.
The loss caused by the bug has not been
estimated.
Homer Ramsey's lifeless bodywas found
on the John Keever farm near Upland. He
had been horribly mangled by Oil pumping
machinery and had been dead about twelve
hours when found by Homer Blosser. He
was 20 years old and worked for the Hun
tington Light and Fuel Company.
The town marshal of Elnora, William
Matthewson, received a letter saving.
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