The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-01-16
ALL OVER THE STATE.

The first annual fruit show will be held
at Purdue university, Jan. 13 to Is
An option has been received on 500
acres of stone land near Bloomington
The stone will be shipped to Gary
Mrs. Nancy ID. Morris of ShelbyvilRe,
who is as, rode on the first train over the
Edinburg and Knightstown railway.
A negro of Richmond has patented "a
corn harvester covering thirty-eight
points. 1t is said to be great success.
The second dairy train which went ortt
from Lafayette covered 900 miles on the
Monon and 1000 people heard the leci
lures.
A farmer near Owens7ille raised some
freak corn. Each stalk had but one eat.
1t vas grown from one grain of corn to
a stalk.
Capt. Evan Sharp. one of the leade9s
of the successful plot by which 100 prjs-
oners escaped from Libby prison az RICH
mond in the Civil War. died at the horne
of his sister. Mrs. William Haseltine, in
Kokomo, aged 30.
Joseph Robson, 10, was accidentally
killed by bullet from Flobert rife in
New Castle He was with Freddie Scott
and William Wallace. Scott was hold
ing the rife and it was accidentally dis
charged. the bullet hitting Robson
A chicken thief broke into the henhouse
of James Il. Gilmore near Evansville. car
ried off half dozen chickens and tackled
on the door a paper with the following
verse: christmas time is drawing near
Thought I'd get my chickens here"
Emery Shaffor was killed and Andrew
Lindsay, a saloonkeeper, was seriously
shot in a duel in Lindsay's. saloon at
Harmony. Tie duel was the result OF
dispute over the price of a drink.
Much of the money offered in payment
for the recent issue of Hagerstown cleo
trio light bonds was i'm bills that were
damp and musty. This indicated that il
had been buried for a long time. Local
business men say that concealing money
has grown since the failure of the Com
mercial Bank, in July, 1895. All of the
issue of bonds was paid for by local peo-
pie who were eager to get more.
The mob injured five persons and rid
died street cars with bullets in Muncie
in a riot that followed an attempt of the
Indiana Union Traction Company to run
cars manned by non-union, men. The
strike followed the refusal of the company
to resign the wage agreement that has
been in effect for five years.
While kneeling in prayer in ST. Jo-
seph's Roman Catholic church in South
Bend, Miss Margaret Joyce's pocket was
picked by two fashionably dressed women.
Discovering her loss as the women were
leaving the church. she gave chase. but
though she ran after the pickpockets for
nearly mile, they finally escaped
The mystery of the disappearance Of
Miss Imogene Kinner from the home of
| her elatives in Michigan City Dec IL
was cleared up by the finding of her body
near q creek two miles from the city. II
was wild and unfrequented place where
the body was found. and it is supposed
that the woman persisted from exposure,
| probably having lost her way. Miss Kin
ner was. ~ years old and had long been
a teacher at Nyack and Yonkers. n. Y.
| Her aealth failed and she came to Nichi-
gan City in November to spend the win
| ter.
! AS the result of windy shot in the
coal mine at Princeton, McLelland st.
Clair and Simon Lawrence were killed.