The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-02-08
Brief State Items.


Austin Bosworth, an aged recluse, living
south of Richmond, was found frozen to
death.
John Jarvis, aged 45 years, was killed at
Peru a train on the Lake Erie * West
ern railroad.
Solomon KNAPP, 3 years old, fell from a
toy wagon into the river near Huntington
and was drowned.
JOSEPH Eacock of Lafayette, a lawyer
and church worker, was found guilty OF
conspiracy to blackmail.
Memo Deafendorf, near Salem. was
caught by falling tree while cutting tim
Der, and terribly crushed.
Fire at Staunton destroyed the residences
and barber shop owned by Charles Boyd.
Loss 81 100, with $500 insurance.
Mrs. w. r. Scott, two miles south OF
Wabash, hanged herself with a telescope
strap. Domestic troubles were the cause
Alonzo Perry, "a years old, convicted OF
bigamy at Newcastle, was committed to
prison under the indeterminate sentence
act.
Bedford was in darkness the other night
on account of the explosion of a boiler at
the electric light plant. No one was in
jured.
Miss Ruth Worries, well known young
lady of Lebanon, was killed by a passen-
ger train on the Big Four railroad at that
place.
Muncie is threatened with a milk famine.
The supply is so short that the paSteurized
milk firms have Cancelled nearly all their
orders.
While blasting stumps with dynamiH
in Harrison township, near Evansville,
George Reyelee was perhaps fatally in
jured by premature explosion.
Edward j. Perkins was instantly killed
by an electric shock received while repair
ing the electric wiring in the home of ex-
Representative Jernigan at Mishawaka.
AudeIl, the 15-year old son OF DIR. Chas
G. Copeland of Madison, died from injuries
sustained by falling when a girl playmate
pulled the chair away when he was about
to seat himself.
Mrs. Hannah Miller, 50 years old, of Lo-
gansport, while trying to extinguiSh a
burning lamp. was terribly burned. and
iloy LII lCll win 1NAuAAC
putation if she lives.
Invitations have been extended to all tie
large educational institutions in Ohio and
Indiana to join in peace conference to be
held at Richmond in April. Many leading
men of the country are endorsing the
movement.
Morton Justice, aged 80, of Reeds sta
tion Hrvinn hnrcn
caught on the Lake Erie IL Western track,
at Buckles crossing, by passing train,
and instantly killed. Both horses were
also killed.
Arthur Swain. said TO be the black sheep
of good family, while en- route from Fort
Wayne to the refOrmat0ry at Jacksonville
to serve from two to fourteen years for
burglary, ate matches in the hope of end
ing his life.
Passengers on a fast flying train near
Spades saw man beat another to death
with an AK. They reported what they had
seen, and the body of Joe Crawell, robbed,
was found. Mike DAMS has been arrested
on suspicion.
Flames partially destroyed a student
rooming house in West Lafayette, driving
dozen Purdue men, clad in pajamaS, from
the building, and destroying their cloth
ing. books, ETC. The fire started from a
defective furnace.
Blaine Long, aged 10. member of a
highly respectable family in West La
fayette, was sentenced TO the refOrmatOry
for attempting to kill his brother with a
Ratchet He is professional tramp and
has refused to live at home.
The body of Mrs. Francis A Dodge. 20
years old, was found in Little Pine creek,
two miles west of MontmOrenci. The wa
ter in the creek where the body was found
is shallow. There was no mark upon the
body to indicate foul play.
William Brlnkmeier, 10 years old, was
removed to the county jail at Evansville,
while temporarily insane. and watching
his opportunity, he committed suicide by
seyering the arteries in both wrists, using
the crystal of Lis watch as a knife. lie
was wealthy farmer.
A thief stole an OvercOat and $40 from
the home of George Dugan at New Al
bany and then entered the home of Charles
Pfeffer, block away, where he exchanged
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better. While in the Pfeffer home he
overlooked pocketbook containing $50.
Wesley and Albert Williams, brothers,
of Boonville, charged respectively with
murder and assault with intent TO kill,
were sent to the refOrmatOry at Jefferson
vile for safe keeping. Albert shot and
fatally wounded the marshal of BOonville-
Wesley killed James Leigh of BOOnville,
in quarrel which grew out of lawsuit
An unsuccessful attempt was made TO
burn the Hospital for the Insane at JUL
eta, in which over 200 patients are con-
fined. One of them escaped from a guard
and set fire to an organ. He then returned
to his couch to watch the result of his
work. The organ was consumed and the
flames rapidly spreading when some of the
attendants appeared. While they fought
the fire others hurried the patients into
their clothing and lined them up for
hasty exit, but the fire was subdued with a
small loss to the property.
When Mrs. Joseph Frederick OF Wash
mgton, returned home from a grocery she
found her 3-year-old daughter lying upon
the floor wrapped in flames and the carpet
ablaze The child's dress had caught fire
from cook stove. She died within an
hour.
A cab, top buggy and street car met
in collision at Lafayette, resulting in the
serious injury of Thomas Quinn, cab
driver, who was thrown from the box, and
caught beneath the wreckage, and the de-
molition of cab and buggy. John M.
Boggs, a well known West Lafayette man,
was thrown from tue seat and hurt.
Miss Louisa Young. Is years old, of
Princeton, while carrying live Goals on
shovel from one stove to another, caught
her clothing on fire and was terribly
burned. Recovery doubtful.
Robert Bryant and Thomas Fardell, both
of Lawrenceburg, met at dance and
ouarreled Drink had cauSeL their enmity