The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-26
SHORT STATE ITEMS.

Miss Kate johnson was burned to death
in Bedford when her clothing caught fire
from an open CRATE.
Rev. David L. Wright. aged so years,
minister of the Church of Christ in Bed
ford, went to his barn to get his horse,
intending to go to a nearby country
church, and was found two hours later
lying in the yard by his son. He had
been attracted by the hogs, which we're
tearing his father. Heart trouble was
the cause of his death.
d. NJ. Richardson of Clayton says the
farmers of Indiana have lost a million
dollars by selling their hogs at present
prices. He urges farmers to hold their
hogs for thirty days, as do the bankers
with the money deposited with them. Sell
I, only one hog a day." he says, land in
thirty days the price win be up to FIVE
cents, which will make you 90 cents a
bushel for your corn"
The public school building burned in
Shirley, fire being discovered about 3
D. m, but so far advanced that nothing
could be done TO save the building. The
loss is $4,000. partly covered by insur-
ance Three hundred children are de-
prived of school privileges, as no room is
available, where they can be sheltered.
J. S. Mooney, township trustee. will
begin the erection of new building
without delay.
AS result of the Temperance agitation
L. L. Allmack, a Piercerown man, is out
of home, his wife having refugcd to live
with him because he signed remon-
STRANGE He was picked up bodily by his
spouse and was thrown through a front
door. while neighbors looked on and smil-
ed. His clothing was dumped into the
yard after him. Allmack, Dolstered up
by the temperance people of Washington
county, declares that he is happy and that
he is glad that he signed.
After sixten years of divorced life FL
lery Morrison and Mrs. Letitia Morrison
were reunited in marriage the ether even
ing. Tie ceremony was performed by the
Rev. William Clinton of Indianapolis.
brother of the bride, at the home of son,
Bert Morrison. Tws grandchildren were
among the guests Mr.. Morrison is a
wealthy farmer, near Lynnyille. His wife
has been making her home in Princeton
and elsewhere with relatives since the
two were divorced in the winter of 1891
Each of the principals is nearly sixty
years of age.
Jack Anderson. son of John b. Ander-
sen. deputy county auditor. is quaran-
tined at his home in Elizabethtown, by an
attack of smallpox. There are only two
cases of the disease in the county, the
Anderson case and one at Hope.
The School Board in Fort Wayne has
issued an ultimatum to parents of all high
school pupils suspected of being members
of fraternities, insisting that they must
either leave the fraternity or the school,
This is the last warning, and after Christ
mas all who are still connected with the
Greek letter societies will be onsted from
school.
So many are the nationalities of the
miners employed in the mines about Ja-
sonville that they have begun TO study
Esperanto in order to be able to under
stand each other. Shopkeepers are learn
ING it also in order better to conduct their
business.
The body of Herman Shure, a switch
man in the employ of the Michigan Cen
trail railway. aged AZ years, who disap-
pcared from his home in Michigan City
six weeks ago. was found floating in the
harbor. 1t is supposed that Shure lost
his way at night and stepped off the dock
into deep water. and was drowned. He
was a man of family.
The Gospel Trumpet Publishing Com
pany of Anderson suffered loss of $20,-
600 by the burning of building that was
intended to be an Old Peoples home. The
walls are of cement, and the building was
not completed. Only a few of the rooms
on the first floor Svere occupied. The fire
originated in the second story and. be-
cause the building was so far from the
weter mains. the FIRE gained great head
way before the arrival of the department
There was no insurance. but a petition
had been filed and the insurance would
have been taken.
Diphtheria has been reported at Walk
eryille, a new suburb of Shelbyville, and
eve homes have been quarantined-