The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-19

Brief State Items-
A 100-foot steel smokestack was blown
down at Cambridge City during a severe
windstorm. No one was injured.
Edward L. Robbins, former cashier of
the Farmers bank of Auburn. has been
released from the Michigan City prison.
While insane in the county Jail at An
derson, Charles Shaffer of Elwood, fired
his own clothing. He was badly burned.
A. G. Robinson. night foreman of the
plant of the Perfection Biscuit Company,
Fort Wayne, while alone in the elevator,
was caught and crushed TO death.
Mrs. William Warrick, the wife of q
prominent farmer near Michigantown,
was burned to death while trying to save
her household goods. Her child was also
fatally burned.
While saying requiem mass at the fu-
neral of one of his parishioners, Rev John
Dempsey, resident priest of st. Bernard
Catholic church at Charlottesville, fell
dead in his pulpit.
Miss Agnes Barrett of Terre Haute, &C.
cused by a peighbor Of stealing a clothes
prop, committed suicide after telling her
mother she would sooner be dead than be
accused Of theft"
L. r. Prim and Andy johnson we're
frightfully burned while handling snl-
phuric acid at the steel mill in Newcastle.
Prim's eyes were burned sightless. He
may die. johnson will recover.
While suffering from dependency, due
to imaginary troubles, Edward Hin
shaw, a well-fo-dof farmer, of Green town
ship, twelve miles from Richmond, COM
mitted suicide by hanging. He was 81
years old.
The safe in Fred Steinmetz's saloon at
Peru was blown and $165 taken. The safe
in Weeks elevator was cracked but moth
was obtained there. Nitro glycerine was
used to blow the safes. This makes
twelve robberies in Peru since March /.
Burglars forced the safe in the postofHce
at Granger, ten miles east of South Bend,
the force of the explosion wrecking the
building, besides destroying the safe The
burglars took 500 in stamps and SIS cash.
The jury ,eturned a verdict of murder
in the second degree against Joseph Noet-
Ing, who was convicted OF killing Herman
Pepmeier at Freelandsville, Knox county.
Noelting is 26 years old and shot Pepmeier
IN q saloon.
Joseph E. Wood, 20 years old. Of Green
field, was committed 70 the Indiana re-
formatory under the indete1minate sentence
act on a confession of guilt. He sold notes
a~ggregatins *4oO, 10 which tne slgnarures
bad been forged.
The supreme sitting Of the Tribe Of Ben
bur will be held in Charlottesville, be-
ginning on the 18th Of May and continuing
three days. There viii be $50 accredited
delegates, with many visitors. The meet
ing Will close with an address by the Rev.
DR.. Wa Quayle-
Following public library robberies at
Michigan City, Laporte, South Bend, Elk
hart and other places in that vicinity,
thieves ransacked the Carnegie public
library at Goshen, taking all the cash and
causing great damage by ransacking all
the librarians records.
The police of Evansville have discovered
. 5-year-old boy, the son Of Mrs. Lilly
Vincent, who uses ten cents worth of NOR
phine every day. The mother of the little
one admitted she has taught him the habit.
The child will be turned over 70 the BOARD
of Childrens Guardians.
Mrs. Henry Fuchs Of Huntingburg,
while using stove polish, was the victim OF
an explosion, the polish lighting from the
heat Of the stove and communicating with
the can which she had in her hand. She
was badly burned about the face, neck q
hands, and may not recoves.
After July / no more convicts in the
Indiana reformatory viii be leased 70
manufacturers. On tnat oate the tease OF
the Indiana chain works VIII expire A
suit is spending to prevent the company's
lease oeing absorbed oy me traoe school
put IL is not likely 70 DC pusneo-
George Stinnatt. "a years old, attempted
to drive boys, who were frog hunting. on
the farm OF George Richman, near Ander-
son, and be was stabbed In the back by
Harry Chase, 10 years old, and seriously