The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-01-11
Brief State Items.

stantly killed.
Charles Hale, 16 years old, while hunt
ing near Chrisney, accidentally shot out
both of his eyes.
Fire destrOyeda barn owned by c. b.
Reel, near Vincennes, and four horses were
cremated. Loss, $4,000.
John Kizer, ex-postmaster of Upland, is
under arrest at Marion, accused of COM
uniting forgery calling for $40.
Samuel Sanders near Gilman, was robbed
of his strong box, containing pension pa
pers, deed to farm and 500 cash.
Harry Strange, aged IL, fell under the
revolving turntable of the Big Four at
Aurora, and was fatally injured.
The famous old steamer New South, in
port at Madison, has been sold by the mail
line company to st. Louis parties.
Charles Monson of Lagro, aged 90 years,
killed himself by shooting. He had been
Respondent on account of Lad health.
Dorsey NJ. Payne, well known travel
ing man of Indianapolis, fell from street
car in that city and received injuries that
caused his death
Fire partially wrecked the electric light
plant at Cannelton, entailing loss of
$1,000. The origin of the fire is unknown.
The insurance is $1,000.
Patrick Burke, aged 63, Waterman at
the Columbian Enamel Works at Terre
Haute, was instantly killed by west
bound Big -Four passenger train
James Mclaughlin was arrested at Mil
ton and taken to Richmond and lodged in
jail, where he VIII be confined pending fur
ther investigation OF the Lucy murder ease.
Abraham Harkrider, farmer, near Ross
vile, is dead of carbOlic acid poisoning.
The drug was kept about the place as
hog cholera remedy, and was taken by
mistake.
Daniel Hickman, employed at Ball Bros
fruit jar factory at Muncie, was almost
cooked to death while repairing the boiler.
Steam was accidentally turned on while he
was inside.
w. Burns Payne of w abash, died at Gar
field hospital in Washington, ID. G.. He
was II years old and had lived year with
his son, George NJ. Payne, city editor of
the Washington Times.
Marvin Kuhns, paroled by Governor
Herrick of Ohio, and who returned to In
diana, was married to Mrs. Kate HOgans,
widow, of Albion, and he will embark in
| business in ChurubuscO.
| David Mathews, wealthy farmer of
jackson township, Elkhart county, dis
| tributed among his children 40 acres OF
land, valued at $4,000, in Elkhart and
KOsciuskO counties. He is 50 years of age.
! While hunting in company with Bert
Harris and Delos HOuchins near Little, a
coal mining town south of Petersburg, viii
Reed, aged IL, was accidentally shot and
| killed. A rifle bullet penetrated his brain.
Sitting in a char watching two older
brothers repairing shotgun, May Box
well, the 2-year-oid daughter of Ezekiah
Boxwell, living north of Hartford City,
was killed by the accidental discharge of
the gun.
Philip Keiser, farmer, drove across the
Evansville & Princeton interurban tracks
near Evansville, after a passenger car had
passed and failed to notice that an express
car was close in the rear. He was caught
on the track and killed.
| A short circuit of electric light wire
caused fire that burned the Photographic
gallery owned by William Parf:tt at Co
shen, causing loss of 5000, covered by
eighty per cent. insurance. Hundreds of
negatives were destroyed.
1t is announced that Senator Lew Ulrey
of Fort Wayne will seek the nomination
| for Governor in 1903 at the hands of the
Democratic State Convention. He will be
a candidate to succeed himself as State
Senator, however, this year.
Bernard Chadwick, commission poul-
try merchant of Indianapolis, was arrested
on the charge of embezzling sS77 from
! p, vltry dealers in Ogden and Moreland by
| issuing fraudulent checks on the Indiana
| National Bank He was released on bail
The alarm of fire sounded at Carbon be-
cause the home of James Dowell was burn
| ing, but it was accepted as part of the
| New Year celebration, and the citizens
| failed to respond till the house was hope
lessly enveloped. Loss S, goo, with 5000 m
| surance.
| Mrs. Cora F. Faith of Mauckport, upon
| being informed that her husband had OBJ
tanned decree of divorce, saturated her
clothing with coal oil and applied lighted
match, in an effort to commit suicide. She
was terribly buried and her condition is
| critical.
| Louis Roquela of Colombia, South Amer
| lea, a student at Notre Dame University,
shot and almost instantly killed Claude A.
| Bagby of Durango, Colo, when Bagby and
several other students, as a practical joke,
held un Roquela, installing him for an
other lerson.
Two masked men entered the saloon OF
| James Hardenbrock at Walkerton, and
with reyolvers held up the proprietor AID
six customers. The robbers looted the till
| and then lining up the six men along the
wall compelled them to hold up their hands
while they rified their pockets. After ex-
tin - ishing the lights the bandits disap-
peared The inhabitants were aroused but
the robbers escaped.
Robert McFall, 6 years old, and Clar-
| ence MisnezS, were drowned near West
| Terre Haute while skating.
| Worry over the prolonged illness of her
daughter caused Mrs. Elizabeth burst, age
| 81. of South Bend, to commit suicide. The
| woman drank carbolic acid. II is feared
the shock viii cause her daughters death.
Ten boys, while skating on the Elkhart
river near the Big Four bridge at Elkhart,
broke through the ice and would have
drowned but for Elmer Gross. a section
man, who leaped from pier of the bridge
to the bank fifty feet below and one by one
pulled the lads from the icy water.
| Postmaster A. l.. Sharpe, counsel i'm
chief for John w. Terrell, convicted of the
murder of Melvin Wolfe, his son-in-law,
| at Rlufffnn states that he will demand an