The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-11-26


Ed Simmonds, 50 years old, farmer
five miles northeast of Goshen, fell un-
conscious in field while husking corn
and died two hours later without re-
gaining consciousness.
The recent advent into this world
of daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Lubin, of South Bend, forms an odd
combination. The girl, born on Friday,
the 18th, is the thirteenth child of Mr..
and Mrs. Lubin.
w. F. Beckman, a member of the
Indianapolis police force for the last
sixteen years, dropped dead while cut
hunting near Seymour. Heart failure
was the cause of his sudden death. He
was 81 years old.
Her horse, taking fright at street
car in Wabash, lunged and threw Mrs.
John Unger from her buggy, her skull
being fractured. The hospital attend
ants say she will die. Mrs. Frank
Cooper, who was with her, was also
badly hurt.
A farmer near Oakland City, has a
pumpkin in which the seeds have
sprouted and small vines have formed.
Until the pumpkin was cutSopen there
was no way for air to reach the vines,
still they have attained q length OF
several inches.
The stone-crushing plant Of the Ma.
rengo Manufacturing Company, at Ma
rengo, thirty miles west of New AL.
bany, on the Southern railway, was
destroyed by fire recently. The origin
is unknown. Loss on building and ma.
chinery is about $4,000. partly in
sured.
David Mitchell, miner from Scran-
ton, Pa, who now lives at Oaktown
is the father of twelve children, ten
of whom are living. No two Of the
children have been born in TIE same
month, each child representing a diff
ferent month. The oldest is twenty
and the youngest is three months.
William Hoffer a barber of Evans
vile, was stricken with total paralysis
at his barber chair while shaving a
customer. The razor fell from his
nerveless hand across the throat oil
the man in the chair, but the blade
turned and inflicted emily slight cash
over the jugular vein. Hoffer will die
Joshua Whiteman, aged so years
and his daughter Essie, aged %, south
west of Morocco, are both dead from
mi k sickness. Mr.. Whiteman, who was
a prominent farmer, contracted thu
disease about ten days ago. Shortly
after his death the daughter wal
stricken in the same way, dying {
short time afterward.
David Hetzger, living nine miles
some marsh hay to cover shed wher
he uncovered a large muskrat In at
tempting to kill the animal Metzgel
stumbled and fell to the ground ant
before he could rise it bit him twice OF
| the hand and on the wrist, infiictin:
painful wounds and which may prove
serious.
William Locke was probably fatal.
hurt and Fred Whittle was seriousl.
injured when a scaffolG fell at tn,
home of Newton Johnson. south of La
fayette. Both are carpenters. Lock-
fell on his head, suffering conclusion
of the brain and four broken ribs
Whites leg was broken, and he i
injured internally. The scaffold wa
twenty-six feet above the ground.
Lillian Wirth, 17-year-old daughte
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. ]. Wirth, of Prince
ton, who died in Evansville recent,
after a brief illness, was familiarl,
known in Princeton as "the Littl
Milkmaid," from the fact that for NOR
than two years she had driven he
| fathers dairy wagon, and her cheer.
greetings to her patrons as she mad,
her daily rounds, won the warm friend
ship of all with whom she came il
contact.
| Covington Kessler, a well-known cit
izen of Danville, was painfully ant
| probably fatally injured while engage,
in making the excavation for the new
| electric light plant. He was driving
| the snatch team" drawing a larg'
wagon carrying nearly two yards o
clay from the excavation, when h
tripped and fell under the wheels
which passed over his body between
the hips and shoulders. The othe
driver stopped his team, and in so do
| ing the load was allowed to NOV
down the incline, by which manner tn,
wheels passed over his body the sec
ond time.
The Rev. A. H. Dooley, who died re
Gently at Rockville, was one of tn,
best-known Baptist ministers in Indi
ana. His first pastorate was at Eliza
vile, Boone County, which he fillet
| for twelve years. During his NOR,
| than fifty years in the ministry h,
served as pastor of nineteen differen
churches in the following associations
Indianapolis, Logansport, Judson
Whitelick, Monticello and Freedom. Ii
those years he baptized 412 converts
While visiting some of the churches
where he was pastor fifty years ant
more ago, he was stricken with his ia
tai illness. Thousands of Baptists il
Indiana knew him and will learn Will
profound sorrow of his death.
William n. Ballou, of Fort Wayne
law partner of Z. G. Hoffman, sur
prised his friends and was married t.
Miss Vern ID. Fish, living near Def
ance, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Ballou vii
reside in Fort Wayne.
A reading glass in Sive & Behrman':
window at Logansport, centered the
suns rays on a glove. causing it t.
catch fire. Sparks burned large hole
in the glove, and the packing caught
fire. The blaze was discovered before
any serious damage was done.
John S. Irdell, 66 years old, died las
week at Richmond from blood poison
ing. While trimming a corn six week:
ago he inflicted a slight knife wound
ON ono of hic foac which roculfad In