The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-05-03

joseph river at MlSnaWaka.
A four-foot vein of good block coal has
been found on the Rubottom farm near
Coal City, at a depth of only forty feet.
A report compiled by State Statisticlan
Stubs shows that there were 42,O74 con-
v~ictions in Indiana in 1906 for crimes of all
kinds.
George Paulissen was perhaps fatally
injured in a fire at his home at Indiana
polls. Earl and Emanuel Wroten were
also badly burned.
With her clothes ablaze from an explo-
sion of gasoline, Mrs. Carl Lembkers, 80
years old, of Valparaiso, jumped into q
pond. She died shortly after.
Grandma Humes, as she is familiarS,y
known, OF Star City, while lying in bed
smoking her pipe, accidentally set the bad
clothing on fire, and was fatally burned.
l.. C. Briner, convicted of grand larceny,
escaped from the Miami county Jail at
Peru, making a rope forty feet in length
with his blankets, suspended from an attic
window.
The affairs of the wrecked Commercial
bank at Andrews were settled the other
day, the depositors being paid thirty-four
cents on the dollar. The bank failed FIVE
years ago.
The trial of Wesley Williams, at Evans
vile, accusedof the murder of James Leigh
of Boonyille, has been postponed till June
II, on motion of the State. Williams re-
mains in Jail in Evansville.
One hundred and seventy-fye inmates
of the Indiana School for Feeble Minded
Youth, located at Fort Wayne, were made
ill by ptomaine poisoning. None of the
children were seriously affected.
Jesse Davis, aged IS shot and killed
his wife, aged 3S years, at Columbus, and
then killed himself. The two had been
separated for Sx months and Davis learned
that his wife had applied for a divorce.
John Brill, a well-to-do business man
of Indianapolis, killed himself during a fit
of mental alteration by shooting himself
through the head while in a shed in the
rear of his home, 70S North Sherman Dive,
Tuxedo.
The 2-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Oscar Gray, near Princeton, caught his
clothing on fire while playing in the door
yard, and died within q few minutes. The
mother vas terribly burned while trying
to rescue her child.
An explosion, resulting from an attempt
to start a fire with coal Oil, set fire to the
clothing of Edna, the 7-year-old daughter
of James Bowen, of jefferson township,
near Lebanon, and she received injuries
from which she died Q few hours after
ward.
William Fike, a farmer, residing lear
Corunna, and Isaiah Suman, of Auburn,
both committed suicide. Fike used a revolt
yer and Suman a rope. The last named
was a veteran of the Spanish-American
war and in i'll health, which induced de-
~spondency.
The home of Mrs. Joseph st. Johns, of
Kokomo, was destroyed by fire. Loss 5000.
The woman kept considerable money in
the house, and in her excitement she forgot
to rescue it, and nearly $500 in currency
was destroyed. The loss on the house is
partially covered by insurance.
The postoffce at Kewanna was entered
by burglars, who cracked the safe and Sc
cured 500 worth Of stamps, all the money
order books and a pouch of mail. The
robbers stole a horse and escaped. The
safe at the Osceola postofice was also
blown open and robbed of its contents.
While Mrs. william Matthews, of Gen.
terville, was trimming a lamp in her home,
the same being lighted at the time, the
lamp was overturned, and burning oil set
her clothing on fire. Mrs. Matthews ran
into the street, where the wind famed the
burning clothing into a fierce fame. She
was fatally burned.
Fire swept through the large barn of the
Warman. Black, Chamberlain Company,
at the Union Stock yards, Indianapolis.
destroying the structure and burning to
death about seventy. five horses. Other
horses were killed in the wild run away
that followed the fire, making a total loss
c. more than 100 horses.
The grand jury at Newcastle returned
thirty-three indictments and adjourned.
Among them is one against Frank Thur
man, growing out Of the poisoning Of
Reuben Daley. No indictment was found
in the Starbuck case, despite the many
witnesses called to testify in the case
This probably sees the end of investigation
along this line.
The Howard county grand jury returned
thirteen indictments against saloon keep
ers, gambling room men and keepers of
ill-resorts, at Kokomo, who are alleged to
have violated the law under the old police
regime. When the cases come to trial
there is expected to be some interesting
developments relative to how things were
managed under the former police admin
istration.
A fire at Georgetown, which originated
in the home of Mrs Henry Wolfe, spread
TO the residences belonging to Mrs. Della
Taylor and Silas Beard, and all were con-
sumed. together with a barn belonging to
Benjamin Utz. Georgetown has no fire
department, and relief was sent from New
Albany. The loss will aggregate 5000.
with 81, 800 insurance. The United Breth-
rem church, near the Beard properly, was
damaged.
Daniel Gray, a young farmer Of Union
township, near Fowler, was fatally in
jured while hauling a load of feftilizihg
material from a barn. He was caught be-
tween the rack and the side of the barn.
and all of his ribs were torn loose and one
lung was crushed.
Sidney Sullivan, 26 years old, who was
in 'icted for attempting to kill Philip Mil
Ter was arraigned in the Circuit Court at
Shelbyville, and On a confession of guilt,
was committed TO the State prison under
the in~determediate sentence act. Mob
violence had been talked of in connection
with this case.
Clark Macy, auditor of Miami county,
has filed a petition IN, the Circuit Court al
Peru for an injunction to prevent the
County Commissioners from proceeding
further with the plans and specification
for the construction of the new courthouse
estimated to cost s2SO,000.
Mrs. Taylor Rogers of Frankfort, used
gasoline, mistaking it for oil, in accelerat'
ing a fire in the kitchen stove, and there
was an explosion which enveloped her in
flame. With rare presence OF mind she
wrapped herself in a bedquilt, and ESCAPED
serious injury. Afterward she called thu