The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-14


church of Greencastle, was damaged by
fire between $1,000 and 5000, of which
$4,000 is covered by insurance.
John Forsythe, real estate broker and
prominent churchman of Frankfort, was
arrested in Kansas City and taken back to
that city to answer charges of forgery.
Frank Mitchell, aged II, son of Jesse
Mitchell, a brick manufacturer at Prince
ton, was droS ned while skating on the
brick yard pond when the ice gave way.
The W. Z. Talberts & Co. sawmill at
Morris was burned. The loss will amount
to about $4,000, with insurance of about
s 5000. The origin of the fire is unknown.
Miss Eliza Williams, believed to have
been the oldest spinster in America. died
at the home of her nephew, ex-Representa-
tive o. A. Summers, in Kokomo, at the age
of 101 years.
Peter Paulsel, a retired stock dealer of
Noblesville, was run down at Indianapolis
by Fire Chief Coots, sustaining injuries re-
sulting in his death. Coots was respond
ing to an alarm.
The Farmers Bank has been organized
at Hiilsboro. Charles f. Short has been
elected president, and James J. Williams,
cashier. The new bank will open for bus
mess January /.
An explosion in the wheelhouse of the
Latin Il Rand powder mill at Fontanet,
caused considerable damage to property.
No one was injured. The cause of the ex-
plosion is unknown.
A section of the roof of the Macbeth
Evans glass factory at Marion was carried
down by a heavy snow. Three sections of
the outer wall were pushed outward and
fell. The loss is 5000.
DR.. j. ID. Searles, secretary of the Hunt
ington board of health, and a practicing
physician in that city for fifty years, was
found dead in the bath room at his home.
Death was due to apoplexy.
James McAfee, who was formerly a we'll
! known politician at Princeton, committed
suicide by shooting himself with a shot
gun. He had been released recently from
an insane hospital. He was 40 years old.
Seized with an attack of epilepsy which
prevented him from stepping from the
track while walking toward an approach
ing Glover Leaf train, John Gettinger, As
years old, was instantly killed at Bluffton.
Clifford Wallace, IS years old, sought a
warm place over the boilers in the Wabash
shops at TT. Wayne, in which to sleep, but
he accidentally fell andfractured his skull.
He died while being removed to the hos
pital.
Frank CLANCY, alias Pat Grove, impli-
Gated in the dynamiting OF the stone quarry
| at Ridgeville, some weeks ago, escaped
from the Randolph county Jail at VIM
chester. He was later captured near
Ridgevilie.
Lee Williams, colored, charged with at
tempted criminal assault on two white
was sentenced to from two to fourteen
years at Jeffersonville prison and fined
$1,000. He was taken at once to prison for
fear of violence.
The farmhouse of John Sullivan near
| Nashville, valued at 5000, was destroyed
| byfire. Insurance had expired the same
day, and the loss will be total. Sullivan
saved three of his children on his back,
carrying them through the flames to safety,
but a fourth was seriously burned.
With the population of the Indiana Re-
formatory nearing the eleven hundred
mark, there were only twenty-six men pa
rolled at the meeting of the board of man
ayers for December, out of a list of eligi-
bles Of over fifty. Arrivals have been
numerous lately, and there are many cases
pending over the state. The board allow
ed ST., 0c0 for maintenance charges.
In case Mayor-elect BookwaIter of Ind
annapolis, should appoint Frederick E.
Matson city attorney, he may lose his men,
bership in the Fort Wayne Typographical
union, to which he has belonged for many
years. A committee from the Indiana
polls Typographical union called on Book
walter and informed him that organized
labor would not approve Matson's choice
and lhat proceedings to drop his name
would follow Matson's appointment. Mat
son has been attorney for the Employers
association and in that capacity has waged
warfare against organized labor.
Burglars raided c. N. Drescher's hard
ware store at Michigan City, stealing cut
lery, revolyers and ammunition valued at
$3.50.
James Williams Of Anderson, wanted for
the last two years OF a grand jury indict-
ment allefing attempted assault on two
young girls at Daieville, was arrested at
Alexandria, and is now in the county Jail.
Riley White, 10 years old, while working
on a section of the Indiana Union Traction
I Company's lines, near Bunker Hill, was
struck by a work train and received in
juries from which he died. Whites home
was in Orestes.
Arch Gordon, whose father, Andrew
| Gordon, resides near Button, was found
dead in a Memphis hotel. The gas had
been turned ON and Gordon was asphyx-
lated When found he was in the throes
| of death and medical aid failed to revive
him.
The 6-days-cld child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Dean, south of Button. died from a dose
of laudanum. The child was ill and the
physicians prescribed a dose of one or two
drops. The laudanum was taken from a
bottle which had been in the house for a
, year, and It is believed that age had caused
the medicine to become stronger than