The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-09-13

While dynamiting stumps near Evans
vile Huston Leonard, aged ., was k'lle0-
His body was blown into many pieces.
Daniel Otto. AZ years of age. died at
Goshen from a fractured skull which be
received from falling down 81 elevator
shaft.
Forest Vic. aged IL, while swimming
was drowned in Pond river near Evans
vile. He was member of railroad
surveying party.
Eighteen persons were made III with
typhoid fever from eating ice cream at a
social in Terre Haute. among them the
mother of President O'Connor Of the In
diana miners union.
Lightning struck and instantly killed
Nancy Brown. 60 years of age. She was
the widow of Hiram Brown. once a prom
inent Warrick county farmer. living near
Tennyson. 4 severe storm did extensive
damage.
Speaker Cannon has closed deal for
the purchase of farm of 40 acres in
the Kankaee region. paying therefor 500
per acre. 1t is understood that the ILL.,
nois Congressman is negotiating for other
large tracts of land in she region, which
is being rapidly reclaimed.
While riding on handcar from Letters
to Germany. on the Erie railroad. Mr..
and Mrs. Leslie Ralston were struck BY
a passenger train. Mrs. Raiston was kill
ed instantly Her husband escaped with
slight injuries. Ralston is the telegraph
operator at Germany and was going to his
work.
Thomas McCleary, postmaster at
Mackey, was arrested on bench war
rant issued BY Judge Welborn, based on
a grand jury indictment charging him
with the killing of his brother-in-law,
Melville Stucky. Aug. 81, 1905. Two for
mer grand juries had failed to indict Nc
Clearly, who was exonerafed by the coro-
ner. Stucky was killed in the postothce
as he was advancing toward McCleary
with an appraised knife with the declared
intention of killing him.
A triumph of surgical skill is the cast
of Amos Abbott. aged 26. of Hagerstown.
When he was about years old he fell,
striking his head against a sewing ma
chine. His skull was fractured and the boy
became an imbecile. He was strong ply
sically and grew strong and robust. The
Young man was taken TO the hospital at
Richmond. where an osseous growth two
and one-half inches long and two inches
wide was removed. The brain was unin-
jured. He will have full possession of his
mental faculties, but must start as child
Alice Kribbs. the 2-year-old daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Kribbs of Shelbyville,
,layfully took a bite of strychnine in
tended for rats and died.
George w. Boss, aged 46. of Belmont
w. Va. was found dead - bed in hotel
az vincennes. 1t is believed his death
was caused by apoplexy. Mr.. Boss was
largely interested in the oil fields.
at the conference of the German Evan
ge,ical church. of Indiana. Ohio, Kentucky
and Illinois at Evansville. it was an
bounced that Mrs. OFT of Louisville had
added $1,000 to her donations for super
animated ministers.
Bessie Parker. aged 6, was founj
drowned in a cistern at her home in Bed
ford. in FIVE feet of water. The little
girls doll and half-eaten apple told the
tale of her death. She probably was look
ing at her image in the water and fell
in.
Emmett Turpin. the only prisoner in the
log Jail at Nashville since last fail. is
serving sentence Of go days for selling
liquor illegally. He carries the key to the
jail and acts in the triple capacity of
jailer, janitor and prisoner. When ke
wants anything he unlocls the door. goes
out and gets il and. returning again. locks
himself in. He is threatening to sue the
county for services as janifor-
Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley trac'
ton car No. 257 stopped on a steep hi:
south of Peru TO repair broken trolley
| rope and car No. 297, the limited CON-
ing down the grade at very high speed.
crashed into the standing car. Eighteen
persons were injured. three of them seri.
ously.
Miss Julia Wahmeyer. arrayed in white
| broadcloth TO go on an excursion. was
| crossing the railroad track in Fort Wayne
when locomotive suddenly discharged
steam and SCOT so rapidly that before she
could escape her dress was ruined. The
young woman says the dress was worth
| SO. She engaged lawyers to sue Tia
} Pennsylvania railroad for that amount.