The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-12
REVIEW OF INDIANA

years old, d1ed OF pneumonia at his /
home. Mr.. Teal was a Mason and an |
Odd Fellow. He was master of the |
Masonic Lodge at the time of death. |
Mrs. Elizabeth Butler, of Jasonville, |
whose husband was killed by accident /
in the Wilfred mine, has brought suit /
for $4,000, alleging that negligence |
on the part of the company caused |
the accident
The new Kidd Hotel has been |
opened at Princeton under the manage
ment of George B. Kidd, who also |
controls the new opera house, erected |
at cost of $4,000. The new hotel |
cost $4,000.
John Metzger, 40 years old, switch |
man in the employ of the Crank Trunk |
railroad for many years, while shunt- |
ing cars in the Oliver yards at South |
Bend, fell under the wheels and was
cut to pieces.
Ira Johnsonbaugh, aged 20 years, |
near Idaville, on going to the orchard |
slipped and fell near the old family |
horse, and the animal kicked him in
the face. The left eye was blinded by |
the force of the blow.
In a family quarrel Carl Farina shot |
and killed his brother-inlaw, Philip |
Mundon, at Bass Lake. Farina fed |
and has not been apprehended. The |
victim was a step-son of the late Geo. |
Scoville, an attorney, who, it is said |
defended Guiteau, the assassin of |
President Garfield
Mr. and Mrs. John Stong, well |
known and highly respected people, of |
Orwell, celebrated their fiftieth we'd |
ding anniversary recently. A cere- |
mony was performed by the Rev. Mr.. |
Morgan, of Orwell, the principals un-
dergoing repetition of the ceremony
of fifty years ago, with best man and |
maid of honor.
W. w. Aikens, editor of the Daily |
Star at Franklin, said to be the old |
est 1-cent daily in Indiana, recently |
filled the pulpit of the Presbyterian
church, and since then he has re-
ceived several fattering offers to de-
vote his time to pulpit work. Mr.. All
kens edits the only daily newspaper
in Johnson County.
A large barn and $1,000 automobile
belonging to E. F. Yarnelle were de-
stroyed by fire at Fort Wayne. which
started. from an oil stove in the barn,
used for preventing the freezing of
water in the machine. A large shed
belonging to E. H. Mcdonald across
from the barn also burned The total
loss is about $4,000.
Samuel English, 81 years old, vet
eran of the War of the Rebellion and
an inmate of the National Soldiers
Home at Marion, was-struck and killed
by Big Four passenger train in
Rushville while he was waiting for a
train with which to return to the
home. He has a divorced wife in
Rushville and four children in the
Knightstown home
valuable English bulldog owned by
William Richardson, near Nortonburg,
went mad recently and it attacked a
flock of turkeys, killing two. Charles
Talkington, owner of the turkeys, at
tempted to club the brute and was
himself attacked and thrown to the
ground. He escaped being bitten. The
dog then bit other animals before it
was shot and killed by E. d. Miller.
While John H. Hiday, well-known
farmer and a member of the l. o. o. |
F., was attending the burial of Man
ford Teal at McCordsville and was
taking part in the ceremony he sud
denly leaned heavily on the arm of
Isaac Thomas and then sank to the
ground and was dead almost instantly. |
Both the Masons and the Odd Fellow
fraternities were at the burial and |
they had just marched to the Metho- |
dist Episcopal church when the death |
of Mr.. Hiday came.
The Rev. David l.. Wright. 80 years
old, a minister of the Church of |
Christ for many years, and living at !
Louisville, went to his barn to get |
his horse and buggy to drive to Wen |
dlesville to conduct Bible class serv-
ices. Two hours later his dead body |
was found in the barnyard by his son
John, with his face badly torn by
hogs. He is supposed to have sudden |
ly died of heart failure, and, falling |
in the barnyard, his body was attacked |
by hogs which had strayed in
AS result of chafing dish explo-
sion in a room at Woman's Hall Green |
castle, Miss Irma Horn, a student in
DePauw University, was slightly |
burned and the draperies in the room
were destroyed. Several occupants of
the dorm" had gathered in Hiss |
Horns room to make fudge and, when |
the alcohol exploded, her dress and |
the curtains caught fire. The noise of |
the explosion and the screams of the |
coed" frightened the other occupants |
of the third floor and but for the pres |
ence of mind of Miss Laitem. sponsor |
of the he'll, some would probably have |
been injured. The flames were extin-
guished with little difficulty.
The new Friends church at Amboy |
will be dedicated on the last Sunday /
in December. The Rev. Allen Jay, of |
Richmond, will preach the dedicatory |
sermon, while the Rev. Lewis Stout, of |
Plainfield, will preach in the evening. |
A. L. Courtney, of Waveland. suf- |
fered a crushed ankle while working |
on the Standard pipeline. near Roach |
dale, one of the pipes falling on it. |
Courtney is a one-armed man, having |
lost his left arm two years ago in a |
corn shredder.
Mrs. Melvin Hiatt was literally !.
roasted at her home in Peru, her !
clothes catching fire from the kitchen |
stove, and she is in dying condition, |
with no possibility of recovery. She is
40 years old, and the mother of eight |
children.
Ross Chambers, of Eilettsyille. IS |