The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-11-19

Miss Laura Green, of Vincennes, is
dying from hydrophobia. Two weeks
ago pet dog began showing signs of
madness. 1t jumped at Miss Green
and struck her eye with its nose.
Miss Mary Mulligan, a principal in
one of the Anderson public schools,
has been chosen one of the 500 school
teachers of the United States to go to
England for one-month study of the
English school system. She will sail
November IA and leave England for
home December 10.
Although three gravel wagons
passed over his body, Charlie, the f.
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs A. Gen.
try, of Peru, escaped with his life. A
traction engine was pulling nine grav-
ell wagons and the boy tried to get on
one of the wagons. He fell under the
wheels and his right leg and left hand
| were crushed.
Miss Elizabeth Baxter, a school
teacher of Alexandria, has filed in tie
Madison Circuit Court suit for $4,000
damages against the Union Traction
Company. With two other young wo-
men she was in buggy which was
struck by traction car in the streets
of Alexandria on July 4. She alleges
she received permanent injuries on ac-
count OF the accident.
Aaron Davis was convicted at
Shoals of the charge that he placed
strychnine in water jug belonging
to Delbert Evans, who, taking a drink
from the receptacle, was poisoned and
barely escaped alive. Both men are
farmers. There has been i'll feeling
between them for years. Davis is So
years of age. He was sentenced to
serve from two to fourteen years in
the Michigan City Prison.
The first corn shredder accident Of
the year in the vicinity of Sullivan
occurred few days ago, when an arm
of Arthur Weaver, "a years old, was
torn off just below the elbow in a
shredder. Weaver was working north
west of Sullivan when his arm caught
in the ear-snapper rolls. The shredder
knives hacked the imprisoned arm to
bits to within two inches of the ell
bow. Weaver will recover.
A wood chopping took place last
week at the home of Mrs. Jessie Brad.
ley, near Greenfield. Years ago this
was a common affair in the autumn,
but the younger generation of the
thing of the kind. Mrs. Bradley is a
widow with sick child. The whole
neighborhood and many from Green
field. cut and hauled to her home sui
ficient wood for the winter.
In the Mt. Vernon Strawboard Com
pany's yards in Mt Vernon is one OF
the largest stacks of straw ever seen
in this section. 1t contains 10000
bales of straw, which is equal to A.
100000 pounds or 1000 tons, and the
company, with its new and improved
machinery, expects to convert this
stack of straw into strawboard within
ninety days. 1t has enough straw on
its grounds to keep it busy for the
next six months.
Edward Limpus, of Shelbyville, sue
cessful candidate on the Republican
ticket for Township Trustee, was sc
elated at his election that lie forgot
to feed his horse for two~neals. Think
ing about the animal in the evening
he went to the barn to feed it, wher
he found that 1t was missing On his
return to the house his wife could give
him no information. He then returned
to the stable and, hearing noise in
the loft, climbed the stairs and found
the animal up there chewing hay With
the aid of three of the neighbors the
horse was taken down the stairway.
Seventy-five farmers in the vicinity
of Lowell, Bartholomew County, have
signed an agreement and will turn
their lands into game preserve
There will be 10000 acres of ground in
the preserve and it is one of the larg
est Commissioner q. T. Sweeney has
established anywhere in the State
Each farmer who signed the agree
ment promises not to allow hunting
years. Commissioner Sweeney has q
large number of Hungarian cartridges
on the way to this country from his
agents in Europe and the new preserve
will be stocked with these birds as
soon as they arrive.
Eight Terre Haute children, bitten
by pups which had been fed by 9
mother afflicted with rabies. were
taken to Chicago for treatment at the
Pasteur Institute. The mother dos
was killed, not because she was
thought to be mad, but because it was
believed she had an incurable all
ment The pups were distributed
among neighbors. Peter Crosse, II
years old, one of the boys bitten BY
the pups, died last week. The Other
victims are Anna and Harry Crosse
his sister and brother; Cecilia A. Cou
sin, Charles, John and Lulu Gary, lie
ma and Walter Endicott. The chill
dren range in age from 2 to 4 years
The families are poor and $500 wa.
raised by popular subscription to SEND
| the cnllufen 10 chicago fTODaDls
twenty persons were bitten by tn,
pups.
Miss Avis B. Wise, whose mothel
was seriously burned by an explosion
in photograph gallery in Evansville
will sacrifice part Of the skin on hel
arms that it may be grated to the
body Of her mother and save her life
After returning from work in fac
tory in Anderson, Albert Six, So years
old, lay down at his home for a briei
period of rest. and an hour later he
was found dead, from heart trouble
He is survived by his widow and two
children.
The tubular well sunk as an expert
ment at Goshen by the City Council
in an effort to find an adequate water
supply, struck vein of water at 49,
feet in coarse gravel, which gives 9
flow of 200 gallons a minute. Other