The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-15

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fourths of the officers for the last ten
years are short in their accounts. Tbs
total amount exceeds $4,000.
Fred F. Rays, of Sullivan, attorney,
Democratic politician and member of
the Board of Trustees of the Southern
Indiana Insane Asylum, and Miss Lou
Use Reitz, a society leader of Evans
vile, were married recently.
Henry Piel, a farmer living near
Cumberland, while on his way home
with load of wheat, was crushed to
death when his team ran away, caus-
ing the wagon to be lodged against
pole. His horses became frightened at
a passing interurban car. He leaves
a widow and four grown children.
Just after Silas Foster, SO years old,
a veteran of the Civil War. had died at
the home of his daughter in Muncie,
letter addressed to him from the
Pension Department at Washington
was received, saying that his applica-
ton for an increase in pension had
been allowed. Foster did not live long
enough to receive the benefits of the
increase.
James Tuell, aged %, was the vic
tim of peculiar case of poisoning at
New Albany. He was found on the
streets in a dazed condition and was
taken to his home, where he was left
in word cvvin tho 70 mil I'M
been away, and an hour later he was
FOUND in the swing unconscious. Ply
sicians were summoned, but at last ac-
counts there was no chance for his
recovery.
Mrs. Nellie Cook, 90 years old, who
has been employed as a nurse in the
National Soldiers Home in Marion,
since July /, is dead of Bright's dis
ease, after an illness of nine days She
came there from Lima, Ohio, where
her husband, an engineer in a factory,
was accidentally killed in June last.
Her death is the first in the nurses
cottage. She will be buried beside her
husband at Kokomo.
1t has developed that Dora Kohl
meier had expressed a willingness to
marry in his cell John Altman, the
youth who was sentenced to life i'm
prisonrnent last week for the murder
of her father, who interfered with
their elopement. Altman has been
taken to prison. The girl has been Wis
iting him frequently the last few days
and hesitated to give testimony
against him. She was his last visitor
Cutters in Hammond ran trimming
with liquor one day last week. Dere-
licts from the city's slums fell over
each other in a mad flight to drink
from the foaming current. Thousands
of other men and women cheered as
barrels of beer were poured into the
sewers and bottles of wine were
cracked and tossed on the city dump.
The county option law was passed a
few weeks ago by a special Legisla-
ture.
The horses in the vicinity of Ha-
gerstown are suffering from a serious
epidemic of distemper. 1t is said that
more than half the horses in Wayne
County are affected and many of them
have died There are only two horses
in the livery stables that are able to
go, all the rest being sick with the
disease. Veterinarians say the sudden
change from hot weather to cold has
caused the trouble The roads are
again very dusty and this irritates the
infiamed mebranes and soon renders
the animals unfit for service.
When the jury before which Pas
of murder, returned a verdict of not
guilty in the Circuit Court room at
Marion there. followed one of the wild
est scenes ever witnessed by the Grant
County bar. Thirty Italian laborers
who had waited impatiently for the
verdict, jumped to their feet, clapped
their hands and shouted, as they
clasped Trotta in their arms and
kissed his cheeks. The aged mother
of Trotta tainted, and had to be car
ried from the courtroom. All efforts on
the part of Sheriff McGuffin and his
deputies to restore order failed.
Muncie dairymen have advanced the
price of milk from 6A cents to cents
quart, because the long drought
ruined pastures and made the feeding
of cattle expensive. The advance is
made by the Delaware County Dairy
mems Association, which includes
most of the big diaries, but several are
continuing to sell milk at the old
price Representatives of the United
States Department of Agriculture, the
State Board of Health and the Mum
Gle Board of Health. after an investiga-
tion of every dairy operating in Num-
Gle, said there was only one that con-
formed to accepted standards, and
that the health of the community was
endangered by their continuing in bus
mess. 1t was urged by all of these au-
thorities that a city milk inspector be
appointed at Muncie.
James Napier, superintendent of the
Wayne County farm, near Centerville,
harvested $50 bushels of potatoes from
a field of four acres. He estimates
the corn crop will be sixty-five bushels
to the acre.
The eighteen churches of Northern
Ohio, Southern Dearborn and Eastern
Ripley Counties held the third annual
meeting at Wilmington recently. The
organization is one of strength, en-
bracing Methodists, Baptists and Pres
byterians.
Deputy Sheriff William c. Smith
tapped bee tree on his Union Town.
ship farm near Columbus and took 80
pounds of honey from it, Mr.. Smith
says he has seven more bee trees
marked and will have enough wild
honey to supply all of his friends.
More than 5000 people attended the
merchants horse show in Petersburg,
making it financial success. Miss
Bessie Hollon was chosen queen by
majority of 1000 votes over Miss Bes-