The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-17

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tally stabbed by Emmett Taylor in trou-
BILE over card game at Linton. Tay-
lor escaped. Dew is paralyzed in both
legs.
The large warehouse and elevator
belonging to JEFF Ray & Sons, at Rock
hill, Spencer County, were destroyed
by fire, the loss being $4,000 with
$500 Of insurance.
Henry and George Lash, 20 and IL
years of age, respectively, two Avilla
lads. won wager of $25 by saving.
splitting and piling ten cords of wood
In single day of ten hours.
Attacked by an Infatuated boar, Pet
er Gresinger, of Wabash, was being
fearfully lacerated when his brother
Will rushed to his rescue. He will
live, but his body will bear the marks
of the boar.
Paramount probably holds the health
record for November, not only in the
State, but in the whole country With
a population of 1000, there was not
one death within the corporate limits
during the month and only one, that
of an aged woman, in the township
David Clancy, aged So years, while
digging a grave at Paoli, in Orange
County. was stricken with paralysis
and fell into the open grave, where he
died in short time. Mr.. Clancy was
digging the grave intended for the
body of the Rev. Cyrus Jones, a we'll
known minister of that place
Mt. Ayr has been added to the list
Of dry" towns in Newton County, the
one saloon in that place going out of
business last week. j. ]. Clarity, who
owned the saloon, was put out of bust
ness by remonstrance signed by a
majority of three. He has decided not
to contest the matter, and will quit
the saloon business permanently.
With the wedding guests assembled,
the preacher present, and after the
mother of the prospective bride had
received permission of the court to let
her marry, Miss Carmel Harger, aged
10. disappeared from her home in Ev.
ansville and went to the home of a
neighbor, where she enjoyed dance
The prospective groom, Charles Cox
later prevailed upon Miss Harger to
marry him.
Chester Ferguson, a Bonneville den
fist, found meteor while hunting on
a f0 l.
From examinations and tests made II
has peculiar composition. 1t was the
size of large goose egg, about the
same shape and was hollow. When
broken it was found to contain a vel
lowish substance, which tests by acids
proved to contain iron ore. The in
terror of the shell is as smooth as
the outside and from appearance has
been exposed to extreme heat
A woman living near Martinton has
all her life been afflicted with strange
names. She has been married three
times. Her maiden name was Part
| ridge; her first husbands name was
Robin, her second Sparrow, and her
present husbands name is Quayle
There are now two Robins, one Spar
row and three little Quayles in the
family. One of her grandfathers was
named Swami, a fact which is not
mentioned as having any bearing on
her peculiar run of luck in the mat
ter of names.
George Copy. 14-year-old boy OF
New Richmond, is suffering from a
strange disease, which is exceedingly
puzzling to the physicians who have
attended him at the hospital in Craw
louisville. He is suffering from "lumpy
Jaw" disease common among cattle
This is the first case of this kind ever
reported to the medical profession OF
Charlottesville. The Jumps are in the
abdomen near the appendix. 1t is
thought the lad became afflicted with
the disease by eating diseased meat
Physicians have pronounced the case
as hopeless.
There is at least one woman in In
| diana who does not believe In the ru
raj free delivery of mail. Miss Man
dane Miller, aged so, of near Pierce
ton, Kosciusko County, refuses to al
low the postman to bring letters, par.
cells or papers to her home, preferring
to have box In the general delivery
OF the postoffice at Pierceton. But
more strange is the fact that Miss Mil
Ter calls for her mail only twice each
year. On her last semi-yearly visit she
obtained twenty-eight copies of a
weekly newspaper, several packages
and third and fourth-class matter.
Peculiar interest attaches to the an
nouncement just made of the forth.
coming marriage of Miss Clara Lii
liam Thias, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Alfred M. Thias, of Jacksonville, to
Harry Worrall, the wedding to take
place in January. Miss Thias has been
totally deaf almost from infancy, and
1t is only in recent years that she
learned to talk so that she could be un.
derstood by those who know her well
She did not, however, permit her af
Fiction unduly to hinder her in her
studies. She is graduate of Indiana
University. passing through the regu-
lar classes of that institution in spite
Of her physical disability.
DIR. A. ]. Willing. the oldest prac-
ticing physician in Porter County, died
suddenly last week. He was Is years
old and leaves three sons and one
daughter. He had been a resident of
the county for fifty-three years.
James Bennett, for forty years tyler
of the Shelbyville Masonic order, de-
clined reelection at the election held
last week on account of his age. He
holds the record of the State for the
number of years he served in this
Office
Farmers southwest of Hartford City
are in communication with q. T. Swee-
ney, State Game Commissioner, rela.
tive to game preserve of 1000 acres.
Ii is proposed TO have the State furnish
the game and the land owners to serve