The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-31

Despondert because of ill health,
Mrs. May Kizer. aged 40. killed herself
at her home in Mishawaka by inhaling
gas.
While out hunting, Harry Shirley
assistant postmaster of Shoals, shot
and killed large blacksnake. This is
unusual for December.
Miss Sarah Jones, of Fowler, T. I a
dandelion in bloom on the lawn at her
home. In many yards the grass is al
most as green as in summer.
While hunting near his home in Mos
COW, Bert Owens freed 'pessum. 1t
had white fur and black ears. The ami
NAL was brought to Shelbyville
An unknown man, supposed to be an
escaped lunatic, is in the custody of
the police at Goshen. He refuses to
eat or talk. His appearance indicates
that he is So years old and of foreign
birth.
Fire destroyed the farm house, two
miles west of Waterford, owned by
John Arnold, Of west of New Paris,
and occupied by his son-in-law and
daughter Insurance $500 in the Elk
hart County Farmers Mutual.
John Alltop, son of William Alltop,
farmer who lives six miles west of
Nashville, few years ago enlisted in
the regular army. Now, it is said, he
is charged with desertion and with at
tempting to murder an officer who
tried to arrest him. Last week Sheriff
Roberts and an officer from Blooming
ton made an unsuccessful effort to
capture him.
Dead fish in great numbers have
been found lodged at a dam in the
Mississinewa river, near Matthews,
and the fear is expressed that straw
board plants above Matthews have
been guilty of turning refuse into the
river without awaiting a freshet to
sweep the refuse away. The river at
this point has had an inky appearance
for several days, where, for months
previous. the water had been clear.
AS he was sitting in a wagon ready
to drive away from the home Of a
friend, Abraham Long, one of the best
known farmers in the vicinity of La
fayette, suddenly Strengthened up on
the seat. pitched headlong to the
ground and was picked up lifeless by
his companions. The fall broke his
neck and caused instant death. 1t is
believed that stroke of apoplexy
caused him to fall from the wagon.
Because his High School teacher, w.
G. Kitchen, took Ellis Stewart, aged
IL, colored, to task for not keeping
his work up. he knocked the teacher
down and beat his head against the
floor of the classroom In the Columbus
High School. The teacher is a white
man, but was no match for the young
negro, who Is muscular and athletic
for his age. Stewart has been sus-
pended from the High School, and
there Is considerable feeling against
him among the whites.
George Brewington. of Milan, paid
s25 for two registered cockerels last
spring. When he opened the coop one
morning recently one of the fowls left
the premises as fast as possible and
the other one jumped five feet straight
into the air and crowed Justify. Brew
ington made careful inspection. He
found that some one had taken his
blooded cockerels and substituted two
fowls of more common stock He
says the strange ROSTERS are about
q and AZ years old, respectively.
Charles. the 11-year-old son of We'll
don Luse. of Elwood, while on his way
to school, found blacksnake that had
crawled into the roadway. The boys
| father was called and he took the
snake home, wrapped it in rags and
straw and placed it in a barrel which
was sunk In the ground inside the
barn. The snake is four feet three
inches long. Mr.. Luse will attempt to
domesticate it in order to rid his barn
Of rats, as blacksnakes are known as
enemies of rats and mice. Blacksnakes
are not poisonous.
The mystery of the disappearance of
Anna Smith and Bessie Krieger. two
| l6-year-old Hammond girls, last week,
when they left their homes, has been
| cleared up by their arrest at Kavan-
augh by officer Halon. of the Ham
mond police force. Both girls rented
masquerade cowboy costumes last
week to attend ball and then disap-
peared. They were found In a house
boat on the Calumet river attired In
Suckskin garments, sombreros and
| fully armed. The girls said they pre-
| ferred the freedom of the woods to
| life In society.
Charles Warner, of Elwood, who
spends much time hunting and trapp-
| ing, while going over his traps recent
ly, made a queer catch. He chased
rabbit into muskrat hole on the bank
of Pipe creek and dug 1t ont. When
he found the bunny at the bottom of
the hole 1t was squealing loudly, and
when pulled forth was found to be
| wrapped securely In the embrace of a
large blue racer snake. The snake and
the rabbit were brought to Elwood,
and are now being exhibited in the
show window of focal store. The
snake was In semi-comatose state.
William VanNoorman, a Chicago
steeplejack who visited Kendallville
last week. can neither read nor write,
but he finds no difficulty in earning
from $50 to 500 per week at his pro-
fession.
Several Mormon elders have begun
their customary mission efforts in
Terre Haute. visiting business and
professional men mostly. although
some go to residences, always in cou-
pies. They also do some street preach
ing and they sell their Bible.
Business at Ossian has increased
sufficiently to warrant the advance of
the postoffice there from the fourth to
the third class after January /. The
salary of the postmaster will be $1,l0O
a year.