The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-01-18
Brief State Items.

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Lydia, the 4-year-old daughter of August
Stencil of Elkhart, fell into cistern and
was drowned.
The retail merchants OF Indiana, through
their state organization, are preparing 10
fight the parcels post bill now before con-
gress.
The voters of Valparaiso and Center
township voted to construct fourteen miles
of gravel road az an estimated cost OF
S6S, 800.
Fire in Henry Krass' grocery at Ander-
son and IN the second story of the Burke
business block caused 5000 loss to tie stock
and building.
Colonel E. +. South, General Agent OF
the Big Four at Terre Haute, fell down
stairs in his residence and was probably
fatally injured.
A safe i'm Albaughs store at Shoals was
robbed of $1,000 cash and slI 900 in govern
ment bonds. The safe was dynamited and
the robbers escaped.
Alexander Jack, aged Y, a manufacturer
and former member of the City Water
works board at Evansville, died seated I'm
chair i'm his factory.
j. A. Shock, superintendent of schools
at Warren, has resigned to accept the po-
sitiOn of chief of the mathematical depart
ment of the schools at Lafayette.
Miss Lydia Wilson, a very attractive
young woman of Mishawaka, committed
suicide by taking carbolic acid. The
cause of self-destructiOn is unknown.
Daniel Nolan, Sc years old, a veteran of
the civil war, was run down and killed by
a Panhandle passenger train at Walton.
1t is supposed that he went to sleep on the
track.
Frank Kleyla while working at the grain
elevator at Hobbs ran against an iron spike
i'm the wall, the eye being penetrated, and
he remained impaled until rescued 10y
other workmen.
Mrs. Harriet Prough committed suicide
at her home in Jefferson township, Wells
county, by cutting her throat with butcher
knife. Mental arrangement is said to have
been the cause.
DIR. Lehman H. Dunning, professor of
wOmen's diseases in the Indiana Medical
College at indianapolis for years, died of
heart trouble. He was born at Edwards
burg, Mich. in 1850.
Edward Naugle, 10 years old, of Vim
cennes, while shooting al target, using a
small-caliber rifle, sent bullet through
the neck of Stephen Madigan, Is years old,
to his serious injury.
DIR. III. o. Wells, manager of the Red
Cross Medical Society of Fort Wayne, was
arrested on a United States warrant,
charged with using the Red Cross emblem
of the National Red Cross Society without
authority.
The home of Taylor Beggs, two miles
east of Greenwood, was destroyed 10y fire.
The family was asleep, and only awak-
cned in time TO escape in their night
clothes. The loss is $1,000, partially COW
cred 10y insurance.
Roy Patterson, II years old, son of 4. w.
Patterson of Logansport, ran against
tightly stretched wire and nearly cut off
his nose. The recoil threw him backward
with such violence that he suffered con-
cussion of the brain, and may not recover.
The contract for the new library build
ing for Indiana University at Blooming
ton, was awarded by the trustees to w. +.
Stillwell of Lafayette, whose bid of ap-
proXimately S9l, 900 was the lowest of three
propositions. The work will begin at
once.
Thornton f. Vaughan, Is, of V;ncennes,
after spending the evening with friends,
returned home and, while in the act of re-
firing, fell dead. In falling he struck a
stove, breaking it. But for the prompt
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On fire.
During the temporary absence of the
mother from her home in Logansport, John
Tickle, farmer, who had separated from
his wife. called in a wagon and spirited
the children away. They are aged re-
Ipectively, and years. The police have
no trace of the fugitives.
In the case of Gus.ave Pacholke against
William Brinckmann at Laporte. a jury
awarded Pacholke $1,000 for injuries re-
ceived i'm a runaway caused by his team
frightening at Brinckmann's auto, alleg-
edly driven in excess of the speed limit
fixed by the Crumpacker automobile law
passed by the last legislature. The jury
held that the owner was responsible,
though the car was in charge of chaffeur
Mrs. Emma b. Simons, the woman who
barricaded herself in her home at Hun
tington several weeks ago, seeking to AVOID
transfer to a hospital, was arrested by
Sheriff Mahoney and Deputy Anderson,
who kicked open the kitchen door and sur
prised her. The supposed loaded rife
proved to be crowbar, but she was armed
with a fine revolver. She was disarmed by
force, after which she willingly accompa-
MED the sheriff TO Logansport. Mrs. Simons
is the woman whose mind became unbal-
anced because of intense grief over the
death of her son, who was murdered in
Montana four years ago. OF recent months
she sought secluded life.
An accumulation of gas in the drum of 6
stove in the home of Samuel H. Anderson
at Marion exploded with great force and
ignited the interior of the room. The up
per part of the house was burned.
Fire broke out on the third floor of the
department store owned by ID. +. Lane &
Co., Muncie, and destroyed all the goods
on that floor, where a stock of carpets and
tapestries was kept, and water did consid-
cradle damage to goods on the second floor
The loss on goods is estimated to be be-
tween SIS, 900 and $50 900 and the loss on
the building is about $1,000. The build
ing is owned by Fred W. Heath.
James Ford, who sustained injuries in a
fight with Harry Craig several weeks ago.
at livery barn in Charlottesville, is dead.
Craig was arrested at Darlington and taken
to Charlottesville, where he is confined in
Jail. He declares he struck Ford in self
defense.
Lee Bickey and Fred Hughes. of Lafay-
cite, while engaged in frescoing the new
school building at Linden, were thrown to
a cement floor, twelve feet below, by the
collapse of scaffold. The timbers fell on
hem. Both suffered sprained ankles, and
me of them received broken leg. Two
other men on the same scaffold escaped
lunhuTt.
Tickle Woman.
Museum Lecturer-The bearded .ady's
husband has been dead only two months,
and she's sprucing up again.